Ivan Pastoukhov was born in Bulgaria in 1951. He graduated in medical engineering and worked for the Sofia Medical Academy.
In 1984 Ivan settles in Paris, learns oenology and works in the wine business.
Traveling around the world in 1992 he starts photography.

The photographs in the following websites: www.pastoukhov.com ; www.ivan.pastoukhov.com ; www.photographie.pastoukhov.com were taken in the following countries:
Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Cambodia, Egypt, Greece, Greenlande, India, Israel, Istambul, Italia, Japan, Kirghizstan, Kosovo, Mali, Morroco, Namibia, Nepal, New York, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Roumania, Singapore, Switzerland, Vietnam, Yemen