Photo Information Center is a non-profit association established in Sofia by a group of photographers, both amateurs and professionals, in 1996.  

During the first years of its existence Photo Information Center managed to establish contacts with photography-related organizations, editorial boards of photography publications and owners of galleries in Europe, the USA and Japan.

In subsequent years Photo Information Center organized collective and individual exhibitions, plein-airs, meetings and seminars in Bulgaria. Some of the exhibitions were presented as joint projects with the Ministry of Culture .

In 1998–1999 Photo Information Center presented, in Sofia and other Bulgarian cities, the young Japanese photographer Ms. Sayuri Tadjima.

From 1999 to 2003, jointly with “Photo Media”, Photo Information Center published the magazines Photoeye and Photomodel, in which were profiled all the most important photography-related events and the most prominent Bulgarian and foreign creative figures in this field.

Photo Information Center presents the works of its association members, friends and partners, as well as its own activities on the pages of its Internet e-magazine, www.photo-zine.com

Another important activity of Photo Information Center as a non-government organization is the protection of photographers’ copyright, for which purpose the association is officially registered with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Photo Information Center established its first contacts with photographers from the Balkan countries during the period 2001–2004 as a result of successful visits to Thessalonica and Patra – Greece and Istanbul – Turkey, in the frame of “New Balkan Photography Meetings”, organized by the Photography Center of Thessalonica and IFSAK –Istanbul.

In March–April 2004, with the support and under the aegis of the European Parliament, Photo Information Center organized the presentation of a project entitled “Alice/Europe in the Peninsula of Wonders” during the Balkan photography meetings at the premises of the French Institute in Thessalonica, Greece, with the participation of eight leading modern Bulgarian photographers.

In June 2004, under the rubric of the Cultural Olympics and under the aegis of the Bulgarian Embassy in Greece, Photo Information Center presented in Athens two Bulgarian photographers and their project entitled “Cult Monuments: Silence”.