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Born on 20.12.1934 in the village of Bratya Kunchevi, Stara Zagora district. She lives in the village of Debrashtitsa, Pazardzhik district. In 1960, she started working as a laboratory technician in Bulgarian Photography, Pazardzhik. In 1970, she was awarded the title of Fine Art Photography Artist and was appointed Head of the Center for Photo Information and Photo Propaganda where since 1983 she has been its editor-in-chief. Winner of the award for overall contribution to the development of the culture of Pazardzhik municipality 2010, as well as the awards “Honorary Sign” of Pazardzhik for 2018; the Honorary ACADEMICA Statuette for 2011; First prize at the First International Photo Contest “Land for All” in Sofia 1995; international competition “PENTACON-ORWO” in the GDR; participation in the national exhibition “Pirin – Photo”; participation in the Sofia Biennial and many others. She has numerous publications in the Bulgarian and foreign press. She was a permanent associate of the Dramatic Theatre “K. Velichkov”, Pazardzhik, from 1970 to 1990. THE RHODOPE – A LAND SO BULGARIAN The exhibition conveys the artistic image not only of the mountain and the land, but also of the Rhodope woman as a generalized image of the Bulgarian woman, reminiscent of Vazov’s short story “One Bulgarian Woman”. Her photographs are the image of the land, in truth the Rhodope, but this image is also generalized enough to embark from the Rhodope and represent the Land in general… The soul of the land is a central image and theme. In this context, it seems that this is not a speculative observation – her landscapes relate to portraits, but the opposite is also true – in a sense, the portraits of the people of the Rhodope, of the Rhodope women, on the face of which their own history entwined with the land is inscribed and to a large extent resemble landscapes in a specific way. We see the Rhodope itself in these faces. They tell about the mountain and Bulgaria. The exhibition is a treasure that Bulgarian culture has acquired thanks to Petra. She is a classic of Bulgarian photography. Her very approach to work is classic in the most beautiful sense of the word, nothing offhand, no inessential moves, nothing unintentional.
