Photography

Nature, Places, People

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Local Transmissions

Exploring Communities Through Dialogue

As a content creator, I find the mobility and format of podcasts very powerful in connecting with a wide audience. While living in Southwest Virginia, I produced a podcast called Local Transmissions which featured conversations with guests from various communities in the Appalachian region and beyond. I interviewed luthiers, small business owners, independent musicians, and organizers who shared their stories with the world and generated awareness toward a particular aspect of their community.

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The Annexation

Live weekly music and talk show on WMMT 88.7 FM

"The Annexation" (2014-2016) was an eclectic music and talk show that aired every Thursday at midnight on Appalshop’s WMMT 88.7 FM—a community radio station located in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The show was hosted by Zhivko Illeieff and featured local musicians, organizers, and small business owners who took to the airwaves to express their opinions on various topics and play their favorite music. The show featured many local DJ's who became regular guests, such as DJ Whole Card, DJ Champagne Logic, DJ Weather Vein (who did a weather report and various sets), DJ Goatboy, DJ Rooster Ears, and many others.

WMMT’s mission is to be a 24-hour voice of mountain people’s music, culture, and social issues, to provide broadcast space for creative expression and community involvement in making radio, and to be an active participant in discussion of public policy.

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Independent Film

First-hand accounts of living in the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1946 to 1990)

The fifty-minute documentary was filmed in Bulgaria, during the summer of 2010. It follows Zhivko Illeieff, Charles Mike III, and Tsvetan Naydenov as they film varying opinions about life during the totalitarian regime in Bulgaria, as well as what remains of that period. Тhе Liberation War (1877-1878), the partisan movement, and Bulgaria’s participation in World War II are also featured in the movie, in order to create a background for the events which unfolded in Bulgaria during the middle of the 20th century. This documentary is a major part of our efforts to generate a digital archive of Bulgarians’ memories from the period between 1944 and 1989.

I conducted interviews, shot and edited footage, and composed music for the documentary. I was also reponsible for the project's logistics, schedule, and publicity. I managed the production of all marketing materials: documentary brand and identity, logo, website, posters, CD design and case cover design.

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