Background
Photography is among the earliest hobbies of mine, started as a children’s game and later transformed to some professional and even educational experience.
Since childhood, the world of butterflies and sea creatures has attracted me more than the human world. No doubts, this influenced on the choice of my occupation. For me, a person with an expressed science side, photography has become the main way of studying a humanity. My father, who taught me how to handle a camera when I was 12, told “photograph people!”. And I have done it, even if the flowers or insects seemed more attractive.
After graduating from the University, I rediscovered photography for myself. It started from the technical angle of view, with an immersion in the world of optics, electronics and precision mechanics. A significant crosstalk of the interest in photographic equipment with my primary professional activities also took place, because the diverse microscopy techniques are widely involved in molecular biology, and “on the inner side” modern photography and microscopy have much in common. Next I tested myself in commercial photography, with the primary focus at shooting real estate and interiors, creating content for 3D-visualization. Concurrently, I broke fresh ground at studio and in the events photography. Years of experience imparted me understanding that the technical side of photography is quite secondary, and that I get the deepest emotional outcome from genre and street photography, which serves as both a graphic diary and an essence of observations of people in their natural habitat.
I share the knowledge and experience gained over the decade, by teaching at the Moscow Higher School of Photography. Among my graduates were not only Russian guys, but also people from the Netherlands, Poland, Great Britain, Belgium, Bulgaria, U.S., Malaysia, Iran, and other countries. Some of them became winners of European photo awards and even created their own photo school in the Netherlands.
Here you can find the galleries of my non-commercial works.
Topical series submitted to Magnum Photo contest in 2019
The chosen photos by genre
