Conceptual nominee

Nudity has become so easily available nowadays that people seem to have been getting resistant to it. The image of a naked beauty in contemporary consumerist society is being constantly used to sell everything – from toilet paper to cars. As a result nudity has lost its genuine aesthetic qualities and has become a mere tool for capturing buyers’ emotions counting on the activation of sexual instincts and suppressing the antique philosophical meaning attributed to the well shaped human body as an emanation of unity between the outer and inner human selves. My photo series try to explore if nakedness can be perceived in a way different from that of sheer sexuality, and closer to the ancient notion of perfection, and if we are able to capture and respect nude aesthetics in blurred images that only hint on the real bodies’ shapes and contours.

Dimo Dimov is an emerging photographer based in Sofia, Bulgaria. His various background includes school drop-out at teenage and work as construction worker, welder, driver, turner and miller while attending evening vocational school later followed by bachelor, master and PhD studies. In 2016 Dimo graduated from a one-year photography program at NATFA, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2017 Exhibitions

• Focus Photo LA, Month of Photography, January 2017, The Reef Los Angeles, USA- Juried by Charlotte Cotton, Nicholas Fahey and Wendy Posner;

• Rendez-vous - Image (RDV-I), January 27-29 2017, Strasbourg, France- Juried by Ambroise Tézenas;

• Juried Exhibition, The Color of Light, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT, USA - Juried by Arthur Meyerson (Forthcoming)

2016 Exhibitions

• SHOW YOUR WORLD, 2nd International Juried Exhibition, Gallery MC, New York City, USA (digital projection);

• Group show "Out of the city" at Atelier Alen gallery in Munich, Germany (second place BEST OF SHOW WINNER);

• Group Show “Haunted” at Darkroom gallery in Essex Junction, Vermont, USA- Juried by Russell Joslin;

• 2ND Annual Group Show at Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY, USA- juried by Paula Tognarelli;

• Group Show "Stories" at PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary- juried by Zsolt Batori and Krisztina Domjan;