Born in 1985 in Sofia, Martin Iliev is a Bulgarian director, screenwriter and photographer. He graduated with his Bachelor degree in Directing for Film and TV from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts “Krastio Sarafov”. Since then he created several award-wining short films, music videos and variety of commercials for some of the well-known brands in Europe.
Martin’s interest in photography sparkled few years ago after graduating and since then it has become an important part of his life.
His first solo exhibition “Color Blues” took place in Sofia in 2017. In 2018 he took part in a group exhibition at the photography festival Vizualizator, Serbia. At that time Martin was member of the Balkan photo collective BULB.
In 2019 Martin was awarded an honourable mention at ASPA awards and he was finalist at the 2019 edition of London Street Photography Festival.