Winter Rhodopean Lakes

• Photographer
  Emil Rashkovski

A significant part of Bulgaria's water resources is located in the Rhodope Mountains. I was curious to see how winter modifies the landscape and living conditions. The landscape caught my eye with its various figures, cracks, snow-covered trees, spectacular lights... I was there enjoying every piece of that enchanting variety. The atmospheric conditions were tough but life still followed its daily rhythm – the fishermen, telling me stories while drilling holes in the ice, a flock of birds drifting in the water or the horses left on their own and keen to take apple from my hand.

Emil Rashkovski is a visual artist based in Sofia, Bulgaria. His work includes outdoor, documentary and conceptual photography, research, installations. Emil is mainly focused on the impact and connections between the environment and the marks we, humans, leave behind. He likes to (re)interpret the scenes and frame them in topics such as past-present-future, consumer society, alienation, ecology, human relationships and their connections with the surroundings. Emil's goal is to provoke thinking and discussion about how we, humans, should coexist and balance in the systems of today's world.