Denislav Stoychev

Denislav Stoychev is a documentary photographer. He is a recipient of the "Best Young Photojournalist" award from the "BG Press Photo" contest (2011 and 2013). His professional development includes a masterclass in documentary photography with the NOOR agency in Belgrade (2015), a workshop at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism organized by The New York Times (2013), and a masterclass in multimedia journalism with Kenneth Kobre in Sofia (2011). Denislav’s work has been featured in publications such as National Geographic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fisheye, among others. He has held over 10 solo exhibitions in Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Ukraine. In 2023, he published his first photobook, "Together for a Short While."

Welcome to the Post-Industrial Age

Denislav Stoychev captures faces and places so naturally that it's easy to forget that there is a foreign presence, a photographer behind them. Photographs of abandoned buildings make up a large part of his archive, although this is far from the only thing that interests him.