photo: Vladimir Zivojinovic

Vasil Dinev is a freelance photographer based in Bremen. His work was published in STERN, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Weser Kurier, GEOlino and Fluter online.

1989 born in Sofia, Bulgaria. He graduated in photojournalism and documentary photography from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover in 2021. In the field Dinev start gathering his professional experience, during his internship as an assistent in GAF (Hanover Gallery for Photography).A year later, in 2017, he studied at the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Later he continuous practicing in the regional newspaper Weser Kurier in Bremen as a photographer.

Dinev won his first prize in 2016 with the international students prize from KreativesWertpapier. Consequently, in the following 2017 and 2018, he was awarded with an Honorable Mention from International Photography Awards. Then In 2020 and following 2021 he took the first place at the Bremer Fotopreis. In 2022 Vasil take part in VII Academy – Sarajevo Seminar for Narrative and Documentary Practice. Later that same year he started his Master for Photographic Studies in the                                        University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund.