Urban photography by YuliyVasilev
Yuliy is an urban and culinary photographer, born in 1985 in Bulgaria. Since a young age, he has been very keen on travelling and discovering new places and cultures, which led him to study in the field of hospitality. He is the holder of a master's degree in business management. On a trip to London at the beginning of 2012, he discovered that photography was his real passion. He has been devoted to urban and street photography ever since. Art became his life and love. Ever since, Yuliy has shot in over 40 countries across four continents. He never really intended to pursue a professional career in photography; instead, he decided to continue with his career in hospitality management. Not being dependent on photography as his main income gave him the freedom and ability to work on his own photographic projects and ideas and to follow his own artistic path without the need to comply with other people’s ideas or clients’ needs. His work in the culinary industry inevitably led him to experiment in the field of culinary photography, where he quickly established his name, and his creative projects are well known all over the world. He is currently one of the most prominent creative culinary photographers, with a distinctive style and technique. Yuliy has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide and has been published in many print and digital editions, including Forbes. So far, his photographs have won more than 500 awards on six continents, just to mention a few:
- European Professional Advertising Photographer of the Year - FEP Awards 2025
- Advertising Non-Pro Photographer of the Year – IPA International Photo Awards 2023
- Non-Pro Photographer of the Year – One Eyeland Photography Awards 2022
- Fujifilm Award for Innovation Winner - Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2022
- Food & Beverage Category Winner - Siena Creative Photo Awards 2022
- Advertising Non-Pro Photographer of the Year - PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2022
- Advertising Non-Pro Category Winner – BIFA Budapest International Foto Awards 2022
- Advertising Non-Pro Category Winner – TIFA Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023
- Advertising & Commercial Photographer of the Year - The Society of Photographers 2024
- Overall Winner – One Eyeland World’s Top 10 Street Photographers 2022
- Overall Winner - One Eyeland World's Top 10 Black & White Photographers 2023
- Photography Category Winner – 14th Annual The Taste Awards 2023
- Food & Drink Professional Category Winner, reFocus Awards One Shot Contest 2022
- Still Life Professional Category Winner, 1839 Awards Color Contest 2024
- Still Life Non-Pro Category Winner - Chromatic Photography Awards 2023
- Winner, HIPA Instagram Competition November 2024
- Winner, HIPA Instagram Competition June 2024
- Winner, 13th FIAP World Cup for Clubs 2018
- Food Category 1st Place – WPE First Half Awards 2021
- Food Category 1st Place – WPE First Half Awards 2023
- Street Category 1st Place – WPE Second Half Awards 2021
- Winner – HIPA Instagram Competition Bikes June 2024
- Winner – HIPA Instagram Competition Slow Motion November 2024
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