Subtle Dialogues

SMYAH: This is a collection of tracks that didn’t fit into other projects and maybe that is the main feature that unites them. They all capture a certain meditative state and are dear to me so it was essential to put them out. I don’t like to have finished material sit on my hard drive and I want to keep the initial spirit that everyone starts with – making music for yourself and putting it out there without much concern.

Petar: Most of my life gravitates around socially engaged documentary work, while photography flows alongside it as a parallel language. I am drawn to human stories — often fragile, rooted in themes of mental health, depression, breast cancer – yet my heart also searches for silence, for the subtle dialogue between dreams and memories. Nature itself often becomes a fragment in my work, taken almost out of context, suspended between the real and the illusory, shaping a form of magical realism.

Petar: This series is fragmented – both in time and in place. Each photograph was taken in a different corner of Bulgaria, collected almost like pieces of a scattered memory. They are part of my ongoing search for what will become my second book – an attempt to weave together these fragments into a larger story, where the personal and the inherited overlap.

Favourite place you like to visit for inspiration?

SMYAH: I like deep forests and rainy weather, although I mostly get inspiration from people and experiences. Still, rain and thunder are always guaranteed to bring me inspiration.

Petar: I often return to the places where my childhood and my grandfather’s dreams meet – half field, half mountain. These landscapes breathe a silence that speaks, a hidden language woven between memory and dream. In them, I am reminded that inspiration is not the pursuit of something new, but the quiet listening to what has always lingered – or perhaps to what once was, waiting to be remembered.