Valery Poshtarov - Documentary and fine art photographer

Brother Nektariy (Glozhene Monastery, Bulgaria, 2018)

Mushroom-gatherers (Varshets, Bulgaria, 2018)

George and his son Nicolas, mushroom-gatherers (Dolno Ozirovo, Bulgaria, 2018)

Dimiter Dimitrov, a mayor of six almost depopulated villages. (Krasava, Bulgaria, 2018)

Brother Filaret (Kapinovo monastery “St.Nikola”, Bulgaria, 2008)

Grandfather's cart (Goritza, Bulgaria, 2008)

Ivan (Gorna Bela rechka, Bulgaria, 2010)

A Shepherd (Dolna Bela Rechka, Bulgaria, 2010)

Postulants from Zographou (Zograf monastery, Greece, 2007)

Gypsy camp (Batovo, Bulgaria, 2005)

Gypsy dance (Batovo, Bulgaria, 2005)

Bucium, Romania, 2018

Valea Alba, Romania, 2018

Lupșa, Romania, 2018

George (Cornatel, Romania, 2018)

Ucea de Sus, Romania, 2018

Nou Român, Romania, 2018

Near Hosman, Romania, 2018

Toma (Greblesti, Romania, 2018)

Sisak, Croatia, 2018

Bosanska Otoka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018

Mladen, in front of his humble home (Frkašić, Croatia, 2018)
He’s one of the few ethnic Serbs who remained living in Plješivica mountain after the end of the Croatian War of Independence in 1995 when tens of thousands of Serbs fled the Croatian advance to Serb-held areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina and further to Serbia. 23 years later the best part of the villages in this land is still partially or completely uninhabited.

Ibrahim (Babin Potok, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018)

Grivo and Predrag (Vrbas, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018)

Donji Vakuf, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018

Hamda (Komar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018)

Hamda collecting walnuts (Komar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018)

Hatidza (Vrdolje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018)<br>Hatidza is the last living inhabitant of the out-of-the-way, high-altitude village of Vrdolje. Cars rarely pass this way and even when they do, they often take the well-trampled pathway to her house instead of the inaccessible road to the next village - Lukomir. And Hatidza is always there, happy to greet every misguided passenger and show them the right way.