Bulgarian-born (1976) and based in the Netherlands, Hristina Tasheva is a visual artist whose work explores migration, identity, and the politics of memory. Working through a research-based approach, she combines contemporary photography with archival materials and textual elements.

She studied photography in the Netherlands, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and a Master of Arts in Photography from AKV|St. Joost in Breda.

Her most recent project, Far Away From Home, examines the contrasting histories of communism in the Netherlands and Bulgaria, juxtaposing Dutch communist resistance during WWII with the oppressive post-war communist regime in Bulgaria. Bringing together her own photography, archival images, found materials, and literary excerpts, the work considers how historical memory continues to shape contemporary identities and ideologies. The project received the 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award and the Athens Photo Festival Pick:24 Book Award, was selected for Best Dutch Book Designs 2023, and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Photobook of the Year Award 2023 and the Les Rencontres d’Arles 2023 Photo-Text Book Award.

Education:

2013 - 2015 AKV|St. Joost, MA, Photography, Breda, NL
2008 - 2011 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, BFA, Photography, A'dam, NL
2004 - 2008 Guest-student at NL12: Leo Erken, A'dam, NL
1996 - 2000 BA University of Economics, Varna, BG

(Book) Exhibitions and Fairs:

2026 Photometria Φωτοbooks Exhibition & Polish Photographic Publication of the Year 2025, Zoetrope, Athens, GR
2026 Far away from home at Shutter Hub Pop-Up Photobook Library, Art at the ARB / Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge, Alison Richard Building, UK
2025 Far away from home at Maribor Photobook Award 2025 Exhibition, Maribor Art Gallery, Slovenia
2025 bring your own book fair (byob), Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
2025 Far away from home at Photometria Photobook Exhibition, Photometria International Photography Festival, Photometria Photography Center, Ioannina, GR
2025 GRID Presents: The Best Dutch Book Designs 2023, Akerk, Groningen, NL
2025 On Printed Matters Exhibition, Gallery Ursula Walter, Dresden, DE
2025 Fotoboekenbeurs, Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven, NL
2025 Thousandfold Photobook Fair x Photoscene Festival, Temporary House for Photography, Cologne, DE
2025 Far away from home at the Best Dutch Book Designs 2023, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2025 Far away from home at the Best Dutch Book Designs Exhibition 2023, Studio Yurr, Garage, Breda, NL
2025/2024 The Woman with the Brown Hair (WBH), UniArt Gallery, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, BG (solo)
2024 Far away from home at the 9th Singapore International Photography Festival Photobook Showcase, National Design Centre (University of the Arts Singapore), SG
2024 Far away from home at the Best Dutch Book Designs Exhibition 2023, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
2024 Far away from home at the Best Dutch Book Designs 2022&2023 Exhibition, UNFOLD 2024 Art Book Fair, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, CN
2024 Far away from home at the Athens Photo Festival Pick:24 Book Award Exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2024 Fotoboekenbeurs, Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven, NL
2024 Far away from home at Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, Photo London, Somerset House, Strand, London, UK
2024 Far away from home at Paris Photo - Aperture Photobook Awards Exhibition, Tenderbooks, London, UK
2024 bring your own book fair (byob), Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Far away from home at Paris Photo - Aperture Photobook Awards Exhibition, Printed Matter, New York, USA
2023 DRUK! Boeken en drukwerk van bijzondere uitgevers, Paradiso, A'dam, NL
2023 Far away from home at Paris Photo - Aperture Photobook Awards Room, delpire & co, Paris, FR
2023 Far away from home at Paris Photo - Aperture Photobook Awards Exhibition, Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, FR
2023 Far away from home at the Collective Display of Athens Art Book Fair, GR
2023 Apples & Oranges artists' books fair, C-mine, Genk, BE
2023 bring your own book (BYOB), ENTER ENTER, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Far away from home at Photobook Award Exhibition, Encontros da Imagem - Essay for the Future, Galeria da Estação, Braga, PT
2023 Far away from home: the voices, the body and the periphery at the Book Awards Exhibition, Monoprix, Les Rencontres d'Arles, FR
2023 In Belief is Power at Focus Bulgaria, Festival Circulation(s), CENTQUATRE-PARIS, FR
2022/2023 Far away from home: the voices, the body and the periphery, Personal Galeria Tarragona, SCAN Festival, Tarragona, ES (solo)
2022 IPFL at Head On Photo Festival, Bondi Beach NSW, Sydney, AU
2022 KOMETA Projects: [N/A]RODNA ZEMYA, Flavia Factory, Central Corpus, Southern Industrial Zone, Plovdiv, BG
2022 In Belief Is Power part of Tirazh: Collection of Independent Artist Books, Gallery KO-OP, Sofia, BG
2022 Against The Grain, The Other Book Fair #2.1, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2022 Ghent Art Book Fair, Kunsthal Gent, BE
2022 BBBB Boekenbeurs, Ijsselstein, NL
2022 From Stage-fright to Limelight, Dead Darlings #14, Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin, DE
2021 In Belief is Power part of PUK! Collective: The Bulgarian Photobook Scene Exhibition, Un Week-end à l'Est - Sofia, delpire & co, Paris, FR
2021 In Belief is Power part of Future Oracles, Sofia Art Week 4, Sofia, BG
2021 In Belief is Power at Photobooks Exhibition, Encontros da Imagem, Galeria do Paço da UMinho, Braga, PT
2021 IPFL at Photoville Festival, Old Fulton Street and Prospect Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, New York, USA
2021 Far away from home (work in progress) at International Photo Festival Leiden (IPFL), NL
2020 In Belief Is Power, POST, Arnhem, NL
2019 The Queen of the Animals at Riso Revolution, The Other Book Festival, Quartair, The Hague, NL
2019 The Other Bookfair, The Other Book Festival, The Grey Space in The Middle, The Hague, NL
2019 In Belief Is Power at Shared artists' panel, Printing Plant Art Book Fair, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
2019 In Belief Is Power at The Book Market (Self-publishers section), Fiebre Photobook Festival, Sala El Águila de la Comunidad de Madrid, ES
2019 Encyclopedia of Pain at malenki.NET #1, Tique Art Space, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 In Belief is Power, Gallery Synthesis, Sofia, BG (solo)
2019 In Belief Is Power at The Photobook Exhibition, Indian Photography Festival - HYDERABAD, State Art Gallery, Hyderabad, IN
2019 The Fallen, the Leaning, the Broken, the Dead at Photobookshow at International Photography Symposium “NIDA 2019. Meeting Photography”, Amber Gallery-Museum, Nida, LT
2019 In Belief Is Power at The 2019 Book Awards, Rencontres d’Arles, La Mecanique Generale, Arles, FR
2019 In Belief Is Power at The Photobook Show, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2019 In Belief Is Power with Unseen Dummy Award 2018 at Belfast Photo Festival, Framewerk, Belfast, N.Ireland
2019 In Belief Is Power at PHotoEspaña, Best Photography Book of the Year Award Exhibition, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, ES
2019 Waking Up on the Wrong Side of Your Dreams at …/CC01(Carbon Copy),Tique Art Space, Antwerp, BE
2019 In Belief Is Power at Dutch Photobook Award, FotoFestival Naarden, Gele Loods, Naarden, NL
2019 The Queen of the Animals at International Art Book & Zine Exhibition, Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair, Nordbahnhalle, Vienna, AT
2019 In Belief is Power, EEP Berlin's Gallery Space, Berlin, DE (solo)
2019 In Belief is Power at Photo Book Exhibition, FOTO WIEN, Otto Wagner Postsparkasse, Vienna, AT
2019 In Belief is Power at Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, NL
2018/2019 In Belief is Power at Go - Went - Gone, Contemporary Space, Varna, BG
2018 The Queen of the Animals at Autopublicados tienda de fotolibros, Arte X Arte, Felifa FoLa, Buenos Aires, AR
2018 The Queen of the Animals at Photobooks exhibition, SCAN Tarragona Festival, Tinglado 2, Tarragona Port, Tarragona, ES
2018 Antwerp Academy Art Book Fair, Present, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, BE
2018 In Belief is Power at SIPF Photobook Showcase, National Library Building, Open Plaza, SG
2018 The Queen of the Animals at Beauty and Consolation, Photobooks Exhibition, Encontros da Imagem, Edifício do Castelo, Braga, PT
2018 In Belief is Power at Unseen Dummy Award, Book Market, Westergasfabriek, A'dam, NL
2018 In Belief is Power at Like You, Me, Everybody Else, Photobook Showcase, Singapore International Photography Festival, National Design Centre, Gallery I, SG
2018 The Queen of the Animals and the Most Beautiful Gardens at The Family of No Man, Cosmos Arles, FR
2018 The Queen of the Animals at The Photobook Exhibition, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2018 The Queen of the Animals and the Most Beautiful Gardens at J Book Show, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork Photo Festival, Cork, IE
2018 The Queen of the Animals at Dummy & Self-Published Photobook Award, Liege Photobook Festival, La Boverie, Liege, BE
2017/2018 Untitled (Earth) at You Want It Darker, Garage Rotterdam, NL
2017 The Woman with the Brown Hair at AWAKE! Reading Room (10×10 Photobooks), Image Text Ithaca Symposium, Ithaca College Campus, NY, USA
2017 BIO ROB 20 18 AT The Frame That Blinds Us, FLUCA - Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, BG
2017 The Woman with the Brown Hair at AWAKE! Reading Room (10×10 Photobooks), Magnum Foundation, NYC, USA
2017 ENTROPY, Dead Darlings Art Auction #9, Foam Fusion Festival, FOAM, A'dam, NL
2017 Letters to My Mother at Laughing in the Face of..., 23. International Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art, Museum House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, BG
2017 Reclaiming Our Cultural Landscapes, Reclaim Photography Festival, West Midlands, UK
2017 The Woman with the Brown Hair at AWAKE! Reading Room (10×10 Photobooks), PGH Photo Fair, Hall of Sculpture, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2017 The Woman with the Brown Hair at Even My Mum Can Make a Book [Zes 6 Six], Corridor Project Space, A'dam, NL
2017 The Woman with the Brown Hair with Self-published photobook award (Liège Photobook Festival) at Fig. Festival International de Graphisme, SPACE, Liege, BE
2016/2017 The Woman with the Brown Hair at Photobooks exhibition, SCAN Tarragona Festival, Tinglado 2, Tarragona Port, Tarragona, ES
2016 The Woman with the Brown Hair at Felifa FoLa International Prize, Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, AR
2016 varna - sofia 1240h - 2024h at Borderless/Borderline, Slideluck Tokyo II, Galaxy-Gingaikei, Tokyo, JP
2016 The Woman with the Brown Hair at Dummy & Self-Published Photobook Award, Liege Photobook Festival, Caserne Fonck, Liege, BE
2016 The Woman with the Brown Hair at Boundaries, Borders and Limits, Photobook Award and Show, Museum of Photography, Maribor, SI
2016 BIO ROB 20 18 at PERFORATOR (De Generator), de Vrijplaats, Leiden, NL
2016 BIO ROB 20 18 at Helicotrema Festival, The Laboratory of Doubt, Turin, IT
2016 The Woman with the Brown Hair at Happiness, PhotoBook Market, Encontros da Imagem, Casa Esperança, Braga, PT
2016 BIO ROB 20 18 at Helicotrema Festival at "World Breakers", Centrale Fies, Dro, IT
2016 The Woman with the Brown Hair at [MIS/DIS]PLACED, The Photobook Exhibition, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2016 The Woman with the Brown Hair at Self Publish Riga, Riga Photomonth, Latvian Railroad History Museum, Riga, LT
2015 The Woman with the Brown Hair at Rock Your Dummy! Award, Le PhotobookFest, Galerie des Ateliers d’Artistes de Belleville, Paris, FR
2015 BIO ROB 20 18 at Tussen zwerven en wonen (Object - Observer), Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, NL
2015 The Woman with the Brown Hair at Unseen Dummy Award, Westergasfabriek, A'dam, NL
2015 Aspect Ratio at Don't Mind the Ghosts Around You, "fotopub" festival, KC Janeza Trdine, Novo Mesto, SI
2015 Don't Mind the Ghosts Around You, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, NL
2014 So Close, So Far 3, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, BG
2014 Thought-Experiment, KiK, Kolderveen, NL
2014 Imagine That The Migrant Was Not A Human Being, street performance, Sofia (BG), Budapest (HU), Vienna (AT), Brussels (BE)
2014 Um Momento Presente, 5th Mostra SP de Fotografia Sao Paulo, BR
2014 Imagine That The Migrant Was Not A Human Being, street performance, Sao Paulo, BR
2013 FoMaa Flash Shop, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Still Image Prize 2011, Dyson Building, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2012 IN SEARCH OF NEW ALLIANCES, P.ART of your life, Zwolle, NL
2011 FoMaa Flash Shop, Galerie NL12, A'dam, NL
2011 Graduation show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, A'dam, NL
2011 Teenage Magazines, FOAM, A'dam, NL
2011 Spring Issue Edno Magazine, MIXTAPE5, Sofia, BG
2010 Dutch prize for photography students, Nederlands fotomuseum Rotterdam, NL

Grants, Awards and Selections:

2025 Far away from home with a special mention for the Maribor Photobook Award
2025 Far away from home nominated for the Photometria Φωtobook Award
2024 Far away from home shortlisted for the 9th Singapore International Photography Festival Photobook Showcase
2024 Far away from home winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award
2024 Far away from home winner of the Athens Photo Festival Pick:24 Book Award
2024 A financial contribution from the Embassy of the Netherlands in Bulgaria to the production of the solo exhibition The Woman with the Brown Hair
2024 Far away from home selected by the expert and student jury for the Best Dutch Book Designs
2023 Far away from home selected by Merel Bem, Arno Haijtema en Mark Moormanas as one of the best ten Dutch photo books of the year for the Dutch national newspaper de Volkskrant
2023 Far away from home nominated for the Paris Photo - Aperture Photobook of the Year Award
2023 Far away from home nominated for the Encontros da Imagem - Photobook Award
2023 Far away from home nominated for the Les Rencontres d'Arles: Photo -Text Book Award
2022 A financial contribution from Elisabeth Vermaat Müller Fund (Cultuurfonds) to the production of the book Far away from home
2022 A financial contribution from Jaap Harten Fund to the production of the book Far away from home
2020 In Belief Is Power: Encontros da Imagem - Photobook Award, shortlisted
2020/2024 Mondriaan Fund: Stipendium for Established Artists
2020 Far away from home (work in progress) selected for International Photo Festival Leiden
2019 In Belief Is Power selected by Liza Premiyak and The Calvert Journal for one of the eight best photo books of the year
2019 In Belief Is Power selected by Merel Bem, Arno Haijtema en Mark Moorman as one of the ten best Dutch photo books of the year for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant
2019 Selected for LCCA Summer School Communicating Difficult Pasts
2019 In Belief Is Power: PHE19 Best Photography Book of the Year Award (Best Self-Published Photography Book), shortlisted
2019 In Belief Is Power: Dutch Photobook Award 2019, long list
2019 In Belief Is Power: Photo Book Award, FOTO WIEN, shortlisted
2019 Fonds Kwadraat (interest-free loan)
2018 In Belief Is Power selected by Colin Pantall as one of the best photo books of the year
2018 In Belief is Power: Full Contact 2018 Award of SCAN Tarragona Festival
2018 The Queen of the Animals: The Best Dutch Book Designs, students jury selection
2018 The Queen of the Animals: Self-Published Book Award, Encontros da Imagem, shortlisted
2018 In Belief is Power: Unseen Dummy Award, shortlisted
2018 In Belief is Power: Photobook Showcase, Singapore International Photography Festival, shortlisted
2018 Selected for the Portfolio Reviews at Liege Photobook Festival
2018 In Belief is Power: Self Publish Riga, shortlisted
2018 Mentorship with Martine Stig
2017/2018 Mondriaan Fund: Stipendium for Emerging Artists
2016 Selected for the Portfolio Reviews at Athens Photo Festival
2016 The Woman with the Brown Hair: The Photobook Exhibition, Athens Photo Festival, shortlisted
2016 The Woman with the Brown Hair: Felifa FoLa International Prize, shortlisted
2016 The Woman with the Brown Hair: Self Publish Riga, shortlisted
2016 Selected for the Portfolio Reviews at Liege Photobook Festival
2015 The Woman with the Brown Hair: Rock Your Dummy! Award, shortlisted
2015 The Woman with the Brown Hair: Unseen Dummy Award, shortlisted
2015 Selected for the Portfolio Reviews at "fotopub" festival
2014 Selected for the workshop Book Case Study IV, LhGWR
2011 Still Image Prize, Royal College of Art, shortlisted
2010 varna - sofia 1240h - 2024h: De Fotoprijs 09/10, Nederlands fotomuseum, nominated
2008 Stimulating subsidy by Talent Support

In Books, Blogs and Press:

2025/01/09 We were normal people (in Bulgarian), Obscura Podcast EP3, Interview by Stephanie Stoeva on the publication Far Away From Home, obscuramag.com
2024/08/06 Page Turner Prize by Peter Dench, Amateur Photographer Magazine
2024/summer Self-Published Books: Far Away From Home by Hristina Tasheva, Book Review by Colin Pantall, Source Magazine, Issue 115
2024/06/27 Kraszna-Krausz 2024 Awards Winners Announced, photographynews.co.uk
2024/06/07 Shortlist for 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Announced: 6 Titles Celebrate Photography and Moving Image Publishing, allaboutphoto.com
2024/05/09 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards - Longlist, theguardian.com
2024/04/10 Interview: Hristina Tasheva, Seeing and Being Seen by Peter Romijn, fotodok.org
2024/03/21 Interview with Hristina Tasheva by Zach Ritter, americansuburbx.com
2024/01/25 De Holanda a Bulgaria, imágenes de los dos extremos del comunismo by Gloria Crespo MacLennan, Babelia - El País, online publication
2023/12/13 Far away from home in Photobooks of 2023: Gabriela Cendoya Bergareche, photobookstore.co.uk
2023/12/08 Far away from home in De beste Nederlandse fotoboeken van 2023 by Merel Bem, Arno Haijtema en Mark Moorman, deVolkskrant (newspaper)
2023/12/06 Far away from home in Viory Schelleken's Favorite Books of 2023, photoeye.com
2023/09/11 Immigration et identités, un entretien avec Hristina Tasheva by Maria Xypolopoulou, 9 Lives magazine, online publication
2022/11/ The Woman with the Brown Hair as a one of the case studies in the article From Social Critique to Social Action in Transnational Art: Challenging Structural Injustice by Cristina Nualart, Boletin de Arte, No. 43, Research Paper, pages 113-124
2022/07/13 Statistic Figures in the fourth issue HOME of EUROPEAN IMAGES photographic newsletter on European matters, a project by n-ost (DE), in collaboration with Athens Live (GR), Kajet (RO), and Pismo (PL))
2022/06/25 A Woman with Brown Hair’s Journey to the White Country: An Interview with Hristina Tasheva by Cristina Nualart, 9th Focus Issue of MAI Journal (Photography & Resistance), online publication
2021/11 In Belief Is Power presented at History in Between, an online archive initiated by Krasimira Butseva, Vessela Nozharova, and Anna Komitska
2020/07/17 Interview on my artist practice with Patrycja Rozwora, part of her podcast series Kitchen Conversations, welcometokitchenconversations.podbean.com
2020/05/29 The Queen of the Animals, Interview by Maya Hristova (EEP Berlin), eepberlin.org
2020/04/02 Meanwhile in..., Interview with Hristina Tasheva, malenki.net
2020/02 THE ARCHIVE HOTEL, 3rd edition (autonomous platform for artistic research dedicated to the artist's archive)
2019/12/20 In Belief Is Power in We loved these 8 photo books above all others in 2019 by Liza Premiyak, The Calvert Journal (online publication for culture, innovation, photography and travel in the New East)
2019/11/29 In Belief Is Power in Het landschap steelt de show in de allermooiste fotoboeken van het jaar by Merel Bem, Arno Haijtema en Mark Moorman, deVolkskrant (newspaper)
2019/10/17 In Belief is Power by Sabrina Mandanici, collectordaily.com (Photobooks)
2019/08 Statistic Figures in KAJET Journal no. 3 ON STRUGGLE (a journal of Eastern European encounters)
2019/02 In Belief is Power at How to live, Prospects & Concepts, Hanne Hagenaars (blog)
2019/02/09 Bulgaars nationalisme, Beeldboek: In belief is power, Trouw: Letter&Geest, text by Christine Baart (newspaper)
2019/01/09 Tique | art paper: Six Questions: Hristina Tasheva, tique.art (print and online publication about contemporary art)
2018/12/12 In Belief is Power at Best Books 2018 by Colin Pantall, colinpantall.blogspot.com
2018 A Fine Mess by Miya Tokumitsu, Harvard Design Magazine (No Sweat, No. 46 – F / W 2018)
2018/11/30 Христина Ташева, фотограф: Моята позиция е на артист, мигрант и гражданин by Margarita Kapitanska, dnevnik.bg
2018/11/23 In Belief is Power by Colin Pantall, colinpantall.blogspot.com
2018/10/27 In Belief is Power at SCAN 2018: la fotografia mas alla del arcoiris by Roberto Villalon Vara, clavoardiendo-magazine.com
2018/07/05 Presentation of the book The Queen of the Animals, urban-mag.com
2017/06/21 zomer The Queen of the Animals, de Helling (magazine on politics, culture and society)
2017/06/11 Dead Darlings #9 – Entropy, published by DD9 Team (event catalogue)
2015/07 Transversal Dialectics, published by AKV|St. Joost (masters catalogue)
2015/07/03 trendbeheer verslaat: Fotomasters AKV|St.Joost @ Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, published by Niels Post, trendbeheer.com (art blog)
2014 Foto van de Maand Oktober, text Anthon Fasel, fomaa.nl
2012 Foto van de Maand November, text Anthon Fasel, fomaa.nl
2012/10The Bulgarian Nouvelle Vague, published by Edno Magazine (bilingual book)
2012/05/03 Hoe erg zijn wij, text Barbara van Erp, deVolkskrant (newspaper)
2012/zomer Letters to My Mother/ Statistic Figures, de Helling (magazine on politics, culture and society)
2012/01/25 trendbeheer verslaat: In Search of New Alliances @ P.ART, Red., trendbeheer.com (art blog)
2011/08/13 trendbeheer vindt: Hristina Tasheva, published by Jeroen Bosch, trendbeheer.com (art blog)
2011/07/09 trendbeheer verslaat: Eindexamen 2011 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, text Jeroen Bosch, trendbeheer.com (art blog)
2011 Foto van de Maand May, text Anthon Fasel, fomaa.nl
2011/zomer Zelfportretten van zzp’ers, de Helling (magazine)
2011/05/12 Hristina Tasheva, text Boiana Gjaurova, Bg Art Context, Sofia Contemporary, edno.bg (platform for contemporary culture)
2011 Teenage Magazines, published by Gerrit Rietveld Academie (catalogue)
2011/03/16 Teenage Magazines (Review), text Lotte ten Voorde, kunstbeeld.nl (magazine)
2011/03/12 Terug naar de emoties uit de tienerjaren, text Jonathan Maas, Trouw (newspaper)
2011/Spring Portfolio: Hristina Tasheva, text Boiana Gjaurova, Edno Magazine
2010 De Fotoprijs 09/10 Catalogue, Pf Special (magazine)
2009 Letters to My Mother, Photography as Cultural Diplomacy, Academy for Cultural Diplomacy (web site)

Self - Published Books:

2025 Imagine that the migrant was not a human being...(Towards an Encyclopedia of Metaphors for the Migrant Identity)
2023 Far Away From Home: The Voices, the Body and the Periphery
2019 In Belief is Power
2017 The Queen of the Animals and the Most Beautiful Gardens
2015 The Woman with the Brown Hair (WBH) or me and my informant
2013 The Fallen, the Leaning, the Broken, the Dead (newspaper)
2011 Waking Up on the Wrong Side of Your Dreams
2010 varna - sofia 1240h - 2024h

Other Activities:

2025/09/06 Presentation of the book Far away from home at ON FOCUS Photography Festival, Varna, BG
2024/11/19 Presentation of the book Far away from home at Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award Symposium 2024, V&A South Kensington, London, UK
2024/02/13 Presentation of the book Far away from home at FOTODOK BOOK TALKS #37, live talk show by Rob Hornstra and Giya Makondo-Wills, Tivoli Utrecht & Online, NL
2024 Presentation of the book Far away from home to the class of Prof. Olaf Nicolai at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE
2021 Jury member in category Photography, Contest for Socially Engaged Art Civil Alarm Clock organized by Bulgarian Center for Not-for-profit Law in Sofia
2020/12/02 Presenting Far away from home (work in progress) at Second Thoughts (a collective exploration on Eastern Europeanness), Rietveld Academy, A'dam, NL
2020 Jury member in category Photography, Contest for Socially Engaged Art Civil Alarm Clock organized by Bulgarian Center for Not-for-profit Law in Sofia
2020 Instagram takeover @thearchivehotel
2019 In conversation on the exhibition In Belief is Power with Radoslav Chichev, Artefir, Hristo Botev, Bulgarian National Radio - Sofia, BG
2019 Jury member in category Photography, Contest for Socially Engaged Art Civil Alarm Clock organized by Bulgarian Center for Not-for-profit Law in Sofia
2019 Voice-over in the Dansende beren part of the program In Europa (Roel van Broekhoven, Stefanie de Brouwer en Geert Mak), VPRO, NL
2019/01/23 Presentation of the book In Belief is Power in conversation with Edie Peters, PhotoQ Bookshop, Amsterdam, NL
2018/12/17-23 In Belief is Power, Instagram Takeover @photocaptionist
2018 In Belief is Power presented by Nadezhda Pavlova in the television program Kultura.BG, BNT1(Bulgarian National Television), Sofia, BG
2018/11/30 Interview on the book In Belief is Power with Ivaylo Stoyanov and Edwin Stolk, VOX Space, VOX Radio, Sofia, BG
2018/11/29 Presentation of the book In Belief is Power in conversation with Nadezhda Pavlova and Velina Stoykova, ПУК! #06, Struktura Gallery, Sofia, BG
2018/11/29 Добре е хората по-често да поставят под съмнение това, в което вярват, Interview on the book In Belief is Power with Mariana Gancheva and Nadezhda Pavlova, Време и половина, Hristo Botev, Bulgarian National Radio - Sofia, BG
2018/10/31 Interview on the book In Belief is Power with Iva Georgieva, 60 minutes for culture, BNT2-Varna (Bulgarian National Television), Varna, BG
2018/06/29 Interview on the The Queen of the Animals with Svetlana Valkova, Bulgarian National Radio - Varna, BG
2018/06/28 Presentation of the The Queen of the Animals, Contemporary Space, Varna, BG
2017/10/18 In Belief is Power (work in progress), Conversas #103, Upominki, Rotterdam, NL (presentation)
2017/07/3-9 The Woman with the Brown Hair (WBH) or me and my informant, Instagram Takeover, @somosfelifa
2015/02 Photography workshop for 4th year bachelor students at AKV | St. Joost, Breda, NL
2014/02 Photography workshop for 4th year bachelor students at AKV | St. Joost, Breda, NL
2007 A Better Life in the documentary film The Houses of Hristina, director Suzanne Raes, Amsterdam, NL

Work In Collections and Libraries:

National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, NL
National Art Library (Special Collections)/Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Amorpha Youth Foundation Library, Varna, BG
Pennings Foundation Library, Eindhoven, NL
NIOD (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies) Library, Amsterdam, NL
FOTODOK Library, Utrecht, NL
Bird Library/ Syracuse University Libraries, NY, USA
Sojourner Truth Library/State University of NY, NY, USA
Cecil H. Green Library/Stanford University Libraries, CA, USA
Haas Arts Library Special Collections/ Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library/George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA
Tisch Library/ Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
Ingalls Library/ The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Decker Library/MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), Baltimore, MD, USA
Library of HKU University of the Arts Utrecht (Mediatheek Oudenoord), NL
Library of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d'Arles, FR
The Archives / Peter van Beveren Library, The Hague, NL
TI-RE Collection of Independent Artist Books Tirazh, Sofia, BG
Gallery Synthesis Photobook Library, Sofia, BG
PUK! Photobook Collection, Sofia, BG
Reyn van der Lugt Collection, NL
Library of Stroom Den Haag, NL
Gabriela Cendoya-Bergareche Collection, San Telmo Museum Library, San Sebastian-Donostia, ES
Public Library Herbarium Riso, Berlin, DE
Looiersgracht 60 Archive, Amsterdam, NL
Library Collection at DECK, SG
Brooklyn Museum Libraries, NY, USA
Museum House of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, BG
Documentation Centre of the Forvm Foundation for the Photography, Tarragona, ES
ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM Archive, Braga, PT
The Library Project, Dublin, IE
TURMA Biblioteca, Buenos Aires, AR
Hellenic Centre for Photography Archive, Athens, GR
ISSP Library, Riga, LV
Franklin Furnace Artists' Books Collection, Brooklyn, NY, USA