Light painting of Ilinden(4). Photographs taken during the Ilinden Uprising (1903) and used to illustrate books published in Great Britain in 1906 – 1913

The article examines photographs taken in 1903 during the Ilinden Uprising by British photographers and correspondents in various periodicals. 

In the following years, many of these photographs were used as illustrative material for books on the Balkans published in the United Kingdom. 

Based on the comments to the illustrations by the authors, it is convincingly shown that the Slavic population in the region of Macedonia, the revolutionary movement there, as well as the Ilinden Uprising itself were considered Bulgarian.