The jury selected the traditional three top winners along with eleven recipients of special awards across various photography categories as part of the 18th annual corporate photography contest of the State Enterprise Radioactive Waste. The theme, “The World Up Close – Unexpected Discoveries,” inspired by the timeless Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, brought 131 original photographs into a vivid competition of imagination through the close-up perspective of the macro lens. At a special ceremony held on the eve of the Christmas and New Year holidays, the authors were personally awarded by the State Enterprise’s deputy executive Director, Elisaveta Mladenova. The winning macro photographs will shape the visual identity of the SE RW corporate calendar for 2026.
Nineteen employees of the SE RAW took part in the competition, three of whom participated for the first time. Photographer and graphic designer Penko Skumov, a member of the jury, selected as Best Photograph the work of Ivaylo Ilyin, a regular participant in the contest, whose image captured a captivating dialogue between living and non-living nature. Special awards for abstract photography, lighting, decisive moment, narrative composition, underwater photography, and other categories were presented to eleven of the nineteen participating authors.
