Yuliy is an urban and culinary photographer, born in 1985 in Bulgaria. Since a young age, he has been very keen on travelling and discovering new places and cultures, which led him to study in the field of hospitality. He is the holder of a Master's degree in Business Management diploma. On a trip to London at the beginning of 2012, he discovered that photography was his real passion. He has been devoted to urban and street photography ever since. Art became his life and love. Ever since, Yuliy has shot in over 40 countries across four continents. He never really intended to pursue a professional career in photography; instead, he decided to continue with his career in the hospitality industry, where he manages and continues to do so some very renown high-level hotels and restaurants in Bulgaria and abroad. This gave him the freedom and ability to work on his own photographic projects and ideas and to follow his own artistic path without the need to comply with other people’s ideas or clints’ needs. His work in the culinary industry inevitably led him to experiment in the field of culinary photography, where he quickly established his name, and his projects are well known all over the world. He is currently one of the most prominent creative culinary photographers, with a distinctive style and technique. Yuliy’s talent for spotting the details and seeing the world from a different perspective made his pictures stand out very quickly. Yuliy has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide and has been published in many print and digital editions, including Forbes. His photographs have won more than 400 awards on six continents, most notably: Advertising Non-Pro Photographer of the Year - IPA International Photography Awards 2023 Amateur Photographer of the Year - One Eyeland Photography Awards 2022 First Place - One Eyeland Top 10 Black & White Photographers of the World 2023 First Place - One Eyeland Top 10 Street Photographers of the World 2022 First Place Innovation Category - Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2022 First Place Food Category - Siena Creative Photo Awards 2022 Advertising New Tallent of the Year - PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2022 First Place Advertising Non-Pro Category - BIFA Budapest International Foto Awards 2022 First Place Advertising Non-Pro Category - TIFA Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023 Winner - 14th Annual The Taste Awards 2023 First Place, Still Life Non-Pro Category - Chromatic Photography Awards 2023 First Place Food Category - WPE International Photo Awards Second Half 2023 First Place Food Category - WPE International Photo Awards First Half 2021 First Place Street Category - WPE International Photo Awards Second Half 2021 First Place Professional Food & Drink Category - reFocus One Shot Awards 2022