Zara Tzanev is a freelance photographer currently based in Boston. Between assignments in the last few years he has photographed the Bulgarian immigrant community in the area, political street activism and the street in general.

He has freelanced for the Christian Science Monitor, Yankee Magazine and the Community Newspaper Co. Before coming to Boston he worked at newspapers in Iowa, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.

He studied photojournalism at the Missouri School of Journalism and the American University in Bulgaria.