REGIONAL STATE ARCHIVES PLOVDIV
11 Krakra St., ground floor
http://www.archives.government.bg/tda/?cat=134
18:00 – 1.00 Dimitar Kavra: Plovdiv’s Photo Annalist – photographs and documents. Organised with the support of 2x2 Digital Print Factory. Exhibition opening: 18.00.
19:00 – 19:30 Dimitar Kavra: Plovdiv’s Photo Annalist, documentary screening.
19:30 – 21:00 Conversation with Pepa Slavcheva and Vladimir Balchev, authors of the documentary.
Dimitar Kavra was the first professional photograph in Bulgaria. He worked in Plovdiv from 1860 to 1897. At the beginning of the 20th c. he moved to Athens and became the court photographer of the King of Greece. Dimitar Kavra is the author of the first panoramic photographic image of Plovdiv (1871).
