Artist Statement
The most valuable in the photography for me is the awareness that the represented at the picture really took place. So when people ask me who am I - an artist or a photographer, I answer that I am a documentary photographer. Although, perhaps, many of my photos are much abstracted from the "everyday" reality. This is all the more enjoyable - to show the most unobtrusive side of the pure reality.
It is well known that the photography can not be impartial and objective. We can merely discuss the degree of objectivity of a picture. Black and white soft-focused photos are not less, perhaps even more honest in that sense than color ones which are got, for example, with a short- or long-focused lens. Because BW soft-focused ones immediately show that they are considerably subjective.
Process Statement
I often use a monocle - simple hand-made lens consisting of a single glass in a pair with B&W film. The coma of this lens is not corrected so this lens gives a halo around bright elements of image. I use this effect to emphasize the light and to visualize the air. I think the monocle can make the light tangible. This tool was used by pictorialists (photographers, who tried to make their works close to the painting using special techniques of taking pictures and printing) in the late 19th - early 20th century. In contrast to them and to their contemporary followers, I try to use the language of photography and not to imitate painting.
I was born in 1972 in Moscow, graduated from Moscow aviation institute in 1995. My main job is in IT technologies area. I am keen on photography since 2002. I studied photography at Valery Samarin. Participated in about 22 group exhibitions. Besides the catalogues of exhibitions, my works were published about 30 times total in such magazines as “Foto&Video”, “Tsyfrovik”, “Russian Reporter”, “Dnevnik Puteshestvennika”,”Profoto” etc. My works are part of photo collections of the State Russian Museum and Leica Russia. A member of the Russian Union of the Photo Artists. As a result of Portfolio Review which was organized by FotoFest in Moscow in 2011, I took part in the "XXI My Pacific Ocean" photo expedition organized by RIA "Novosti" to the 21 countries of APEC.
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