RadLab Studio

Lucyd Eyes
2021-06-15 - 2021-06-16 | RadLab Studio, Shipka 11 str., Gabrovo, Gabrovo, 5300, Bulgaria
RADLAB studio presents Lucid Eyes, an exhibition by Vesselina Nikolaeva – one of the leading contemporary Bulgarian photographers working in the field of narrative photography.
Lucid eyes is a series of portraits and landscapes from the coveted world outside – all taken in the last year. Printed in large formats, they create the impression of immediate human proximity. They seem to be more alive than some of the people we meet in our everyday life – especially when we need to layer medical masks on top of our social ones.
When was the last time you felt close to someone? How do you know that someone has decided to trust you? Can you read in someone’s eyes that you have been allowed in their inner world?
In the Lucid Eyes exhibition warmth and openness are not hidden under layers of social rules. The people in the pictures allow the viewer to step into their inner world – but they are also looking into him. Their look is relaxed and open, their eyes are lucid. And we feel the impulse to do the same – when we look at them, when we look at anyone around us. Their eyes are a physical reminder of what it means to love.

Blue Summer
2021-06-01 - 2021-10-30
The main goal of BLUE SUMMER project is to encourage students to interpret their lifes in nowadays invironment of social isolation, using alternative photographic processes and analog photography. Analog processes in photography include capturing images on physical media – film, developing them in the laboratory and printing them on a positive paper copy. All these processes are preformed slowly, requiring patience and precise work in contrast to the hectic daily life in which we all find ourselves.
Teenagers with an interest in photography has the opportunity to take part in BLUE SUMMER. During the summer vacation they will be working on their photography essays, that represent their world, which is inevitably affected by the Covid-19 pandemic,the consequences of which threaten the social model, reprogramming the personality and often leading to loss of identity.
Аpart from the lessions, related to the specificts of the analog photography, in the project program are also included a series of lectures related to photography’s nature as art and form of expression.

Cyan Day
2021-01-18
Cyanotype is one of the first known techniques in image reproduction, in which emulsion silver is not involved. It is characterized by its blue tones, as its name suggests. Long considered simply a printing technique, today it is gaining popularity as an alternative mean of expression in photography due to its accessibility, technical unpretentiousness and many different ways to improvise.
