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“Foodtopia” project happens at a “utopian land,” where all food items are gigantic and tasty and where it’s absolutely normal to cruise in a forest made from broccoli. The daily routine of a firefighter includes putting down blazing chilies and the regular winter is full of cookies and heavy powdered sugar snowfalls,” the photographer explains. “To step on tomato in Foodtopia is considered a crime and corn is mined in quarries. The people in the capital of Foodtopia work in their tiny offices in skyscrapers made of graters and on the weekends they chill by the donuts racetrack made of candies.

Yuliy is a street photographer, born in 1985 in Bulgaria. Since young age he was very keen on travelling and discovering new places and cultures, which led him to study in the field of tourism, he is a holder of a Master degree in Business Management. In one of his trips to London in the beginning of 2012 he discovered that photography is his real passion. Ever since he is devoted to urban and culinary photography, it is his life and love. Yuliy’s talent to spot the details and to see the street in a different perspective made his pictures to stand out very quickly. Since 2019 he holds the prestigious EFIAP/Bronze title from the International Federation of Photographic Art, the highest ranked photographer from Bulgaria. So far his photographs has won more than 100 awards on six continents. “It is not what you see on the street, but how you see it.”