We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Victoria Sirakova a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Victoria , thank you so much for taking the time to share your lessons learned with us and we’re sure your wisdom will help many. So, one question that comes up often and that we’re hoping you can shed some light on is keeping creativity alive over long stretches – how do you keep your creativity alive?
Creativity is something that more of the times is not coming to you, depending of the situation you are in right now. I try to keep it alive, with often check Pinterest and finding a good topics that can give me inspiration to create something new using like the colors, or the pose, or the outfit or the glam.
Anyone has some problems and not feel like he needs to do something creative but in my opinion we need to give ourself a little time, because its a process and we need to get our self together and do great stuff. Just keep doing it!
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
Victoria Sirakova is a photographer from 12 years, based in Los Angeles. She shoots a diverse range of events, photoshoots and commercial photography for clients, all with a clean and elegant aesthetic.
Viktoria began 2012 shooting weddings in her hometown of Zlatograd, Bulgaria. Her reputation quickly grew and she became the preferred choice of many newlyweds. In 2014 she moved to the capital city of Sofia to further develop her skills as a photographer in local live-music nightclubs. She managed to impress the resident performers and was hired to capture backstage moments of the Planeta Festival tour in 2015.
In 2021, Viktoria moved to USA, and started to work with Radiance photography studio and Deja vu production company. Both with services into weddings, photoshoots and events.
In 2022 she opened her own corporation Vixinator LLC. During this time she got more into celebrities and fashion shows with The Model Experience and became one of the house photographers for them. She had the opportunity to photograph Jungle Ball of iHeart Radio and improve her concert photography. Meanwhile, she’s still doing weddings and events with 5 more photographers at that time.
In 2023 she did 2 billboards one for her own company based on Sunset Boulevard and one more with The Model Experience based on Times Square during NYFW. Also, she did 3 magazine covers for Grazia Bulgaria and 3 magazine covers for Tattoo industry in the United States. She also started to work with Christine Chiu, and together they attend Met Gala, Balenciaga review 2023 and many more events. They had an article in Vanity Fair about honoring Karl Lagerfeld.
She became part Getty Images team since January 2023. In October, she attended Vogue seminar with celebrities speakers in Vogue office in NYC, learning some insider about creation of the world- famous magazine.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
be quite and listen more, have a set goals and dreams, practice a lot.
My advice it be focused and don’t listen to people around you, because their limits its not yours
What was the most impactful thing your parents did for you?
They always want to me to have a secure things, Like job, home and living a simple life. I got small of this and become a black sheep of the family, but I recently read about a quote and it says : the black sheep are the ones that can turn into GOAT, so listen your parents, but also make sure you are listen your heart too!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.victoriasirakovaphotographer.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriasirakovaphotographer/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VictoriaSirakovaPhotographer
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