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Rumyana Boyadzhieva was born in the village of Tsar Ivan Asen, Popovo District. She started her career in the “Bulgaria” magazine under the watchful eye of Nikola Stoichkov. With the establisrhment of the Bulgarian Television, she started working there and thus became the founder and head of the photo department where she worked until her untimely death in 1992. Author of solo exhibitions displayed abroad. Member of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists. She is the winner of the Artist FIAP distinction. She won numerous awards, and certain peak in her career was marked in 1966 when her photo became a poster and was on the cover of the World Press Photo catalog. Winner of the Photokina Grand prize. She was not allowed to travel to Western countries but was decorated the Order of St. St. “Cyril and Methodius” the 1st Degree. She devoted years to the art of ballet, which earned her recognition from ballet specialist Arnold Haskell for her exhibition at the Varna Ballet Competition: “I don’t know where greater ballet is – here, in the exhibition, or there, on the stage.”. SELECTED WORKS The collection presents the most important professional features of Rumyana Boyadzhieva, one of which is the reportage art of the urban everyday life, extracting moments from the uncontrollable daily routine proposing, however, the wonderful opportunity to get closer to the person, to feel them, to give them a chance through a situation, often mildly amusing or even comical, to manifest themselves. She was and created, in a sense, the model of a television photographer. Practically, when one passes by the boards at the National Television right now, one will see her photographs and all the people who live through these photographs. They are what Roland Barthes calls “photogrammes” and are both fragments, usually of some plot, show, movie, production, and at the same time depict the