Lilyana Karadjova is a Bulgarian photographer, art historian and philosopher. She is an assistant professor of photography in New Bulgarian University and lecturer in National Academy of Art, Sofia, lectures on theory and history of photography, photography and art, photography in graphic design. She has delivered numerous workshops on alternative photographic processes and since 2015 has constructed hundreds of cameras with her students. She is a visiting professor in the Brera Academy, Milano, Abat Oliba CEU University, Barcelona and guest professor in the University of Notre Dame du Lac.

In the field of criticism Lilyana Karadjova has worked as an art columnist in the national Novinar daily (2008-2016) and has frequently contributed to the magazines L'Europeo, Art and Critique, Culture newspaper, Bulletin of UBA.