site.btaActor and Photographer Simeon Lyutakov Presents "Travels" Exhibition at Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin

Simeon Lyutakov's photography exhibition "Travels" opens on Monday  at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute (BCI) in Berlin, the Institute told BTA. Admission is free. 

The invitation to the exhibition reads: "Paths turn into roads, roads into highways, motorways, runways. But sooner or later they lead you back to a path. If you bend down and see your footsteps in the dust, it means you are not just travelling, but journeying. Dust is everywhere: in volcanic craters, in deserts, on the theater stage. It is a sign of movement, of encounters, of stories. Once, on the side of the road in Sinai under the scorching sun, I wrote with my finger on the rear window of the car not 'Wash me,' but 'Get me even dirtier!' – the car already had 500 kilometres of sand on its windows. An hour later, I dove into the Red Sea and politely asked the Bedouin fishermen to let me photograph them. Over time, I realized that this dust was not a metaphor – it was a reality that followed everyone who sought it. In the evening, I blew it off my camera with a small blue pump, because a speck of dust on the sensor is scarier than any stage fright. Thus, travel, the stage, and photography came together in one – in the dust that preserves the traces of all our stories."

Simeon Lyutakov was born in Ruse (on the Danube) in 1972, the BCI said. He completed his secondary education at the Prof. Dimitar Balarev Technical School of Chemistry in his hometown and took his first steps on the theatre stage at Yordan De Meo's pantomime studio. After graduating from the theatre academy in 1995, he was appointed as an actor in the Varna Drama Theatre troupe, where he has worked with few interruptions to this day. He has participated in over 80 theatre productions and has been actively involved in film and television.

Alongside his acting career, Lyutakov has developed a career in photography. He has had more than ten solo exhibitions in Bulgaria (Sofia, Varna, Ruse, Stara Zagora). Outside Bulgaria, he has presented two exhibitions in Egypt and one in Costa Rica.