Attila’s background is Turkish-Bulgarian; he was born in Svishtov, a small town on the Bulgarian shore of the Danube River. During the 80s, he lived in North Africa, in Tripoli, Libya, where his parents worked as expatriates. He migrated to Canada later in life, as a teenager.
Attila is a lifelong lover, practitioner, and occasional teacher of photography. He is a graduate of McGill University (BA), McMaster University (MA), and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (JD). He is a recipient of numerous prestigious scholarships and grants, as well as a published author in various academic journals. He practiced law for a number of years and later returned to school to do graduate-level work.
In addition to his photographic work, Attila is also a part-time Ph.D. student in philosophy, focusing on environmental ethics and law, ecological philosophy, and the thought of early-modern German philosophers, namely Kant and Hegel. Attila lives in Toronto with his wife and two young children.
