About Tina

Tina was born in Bulgaria on the verge of a major political and social change in Eastern Europe.  She started taking pictures at age 6 with a film camera and never stopped. She won an academic scholarship and moved to the USA when she was 18 and later on completed a Master of Business Administration at Duke University. She has lived in Florida, California, North Carolina, London, Florence and New York City. Taking photos was what kept Tina grounded throughout her business/economics studies and later on her decade-long finance career in New York City until she made the commitment to dedicate her time and energy to her calling - photography.  Tina completed a program at the International Center of Photography in NYC with a focus on portraiture, fashion and commercial product, as well as studied Renaissance Art History and Studio Photography in Florence (Italy).

She can find inspiration both in the hectic streets of NYC and the contrasting remote places of wild nature and traditions like her favorite islands in Sicily and Greece, and the tribes in Africa.  Ever since she was a little girl she was fascinated by foreign places, people, traditions and culture and when she worked in finance she spent all of her savings on traveling around the world. Aside from traveling for personal inspiration and interest, in early 2018, Tina was sponsored by Lansinoh to travel to 19 countries in 5 continents in 2 months and create the global women empowerment and breastfeeding awareness campaign. Her work was published by Global Citizen, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, ABC news, Good morning America, and a number of other publications. Additionally, she has been published in Cosmopolitan Bulgaria, National Geographic, New York Post, Corriere della Serra, Bulgarka Magazine, interviewed on Bulgarian National TV and hosted exhibitions in the US, Italy and Bulgaria. Tina strives to capture stories of inner and outer beauty, drama, emotion, tradition, history, smells and sounds.  She is driven to reveal what is beyond the surface of a face or place, and leave her subjects as a timeless representation of their lifetime story.