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Born on September 26 in the village of Bezhanovo, Lovech district. In 1973 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography and 17 years later he became Associate Professor in photography. For many years he was a director of photography at the Boyana Film Studios and the Studio for Documentary and Popular Science Films. In the meantime, he worked as a freelance photographer and editor. In 1979, he was awarded the title of Fine Art Photography Artist. In 1997, Prof. Georgiev founded the “Art Photography” major at NATFA “Kr. Sarafov”, which for the first time provided an opportunity for higher education in the art of photography in Bulgaria. Over the years, he has had dozens of solo exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad. In 1993, his project “Balkan Naivist Photographers” received a grant from the Swedish foundation “Erna & Victor Hasselbald”. After his death in 2008, the vast part of his archive was lost. He is the winner of the Honorary ACADEMICA Statuette. On the occasion of Prof. Georgiev’s cycle “Ordinary People”, the great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson wrote to him, “… I was deeply touched by your beautiful album” Ordinary People “, in which you prove that with mind and heart, all people become (extra) ordinary …” SELECTED WORKS The exhibition shows photographs from the series “Ordinary People”, “Village Pub”, “Ward № 13” and others, preserved in the collections of Yanka Kyurkchieva Academy of Photography. The images reveal the beauty of everyday human relationships in a unique way. “If it comes to which genre I’ve worked in the most, it would be reportage photography in the broadest sense of the word. Another genre is what the English call “street photography”, where it is not a question of capturing streets and buildings, but in an idiomatic sense – of photographing people.” (RUM) All exhibited photographic copies are made by the author.
