Nikola Stoichkov was born in 1917 in Sofia. He was a professional photojournalist and the winner of the “Golden Feather” award, had dozens of author’s exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad, participated in the jury of a number of national and international photo exhibitions and was in the leadership of the Club of Photographers in Bulgaria. Stoichkov encouraged the growth of many young photojournalists. On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the birth of photography, in 1989 Nikola Stoichkov was awarded a jubilee plaque and a diploma for his contribution to the development of photography in Bulgaria. In 2000, he received the Honorary Diploma and the Honorary ACADEMICA Statuette. 2017 marked the 100th Anniversary of his birth. On this occasion, the Academy of Photography (Bulgaria) dedicated the year to Nikola Stoichkov and fulfilled his dream by publishing a photo album presenting his rich legacy. DAY ONE AFTER THE LAST The exhibition presents photo documents, honest black-and-white pictorial evidence of a bygone era and facts that have yet to be translated impartially and as accurately as possible. The featured collection of photographs presents him not only as a dedicated documentarian, but also as a sensitive artist whose little-known works and reportage portraits reveal the «Homo Photographicus», to whom nothing photographically interesting can be irrelevant. The photographs after September 9 demonstrate how, if the context of the image is changed, suddenly it becomes completely different. It pulls out absolutely antithetical stories from its own core. In fact, at the time he wanted to capture a fresh start, a new, just opening historical page. By showing it now in modern times, we are actually showing the somewhat absurd hope of a failed historical project – the crashed socialist Bulgaria. Uncle Kolyo turned out to be a reporter who has yet to unveil much more than what his reportages first illustrated and the way they had been interpreted. Through this exhibition of Stoichkov, his work entered upon a new artistic life in the Bulgarian cultural environment and bechanced to find its way to the modern audience.