"I never could write about my works, but at times I am asked questions about it, so here below I`ve summed up some main things I have to say.

I was born and grew up in St Petersburg, while it was still called Leningrad. My parents are artists, and as a child I didn`t even know that there were any other professions. However, unlike most of my playmates, I didn`t attend any schools of art and didn`t enter Mukhina Leningrad Higher Arts and Crafts College or the Academy of Arts.

And though the beauty around was the only thing which really interested me, I plunged into my study of foreign languages and spent a long while investigating different sides of my self, which had no direct relation to art.

Later I studied various artistic disciplines from time to time first in America, then in St Petersburg. For a long time I lived in Seattle, which is the Pacific north-west very like St Pete (with its rains and a grayish landscape) and which I consider to be my second home. It was right there, where I took a photo camera for the first time in several years.

After Seattle I again lived in St Petersburg for a long time. Petersburg always evoked in me a mixed feeling of love and hate and constantly filled me with inspiration. This is what my life consists of. Now I find myself in the States again, and in these circumstances I keep on living and taking my pictures. Changing two lives and continents is like contrast shower, and in some sense it`s very useful as it helps to see things and faces from a distance and look at them from the outside.

As a rule, I have a feeling of what excites me at the moment, of where I see beauty. I`m happy that I see it and happy that I found a way to express it. I love light and mood.

As a child, when I was 10, we all had "Smena-Lomo" cameras in the times of a photo studio classes in the House of Pioneers. Later I started to take photos with my parents` Zenith photo cam.

I always used a 35mm film, and just one year ago I, to my own surprise, firstly fell for Holga, and then started to study shooting in medium format more attentively.

Sometimes I don`t touch the film at all, sometimes scratch it somehow or write on it, or proceed it in some other way: there are many methods and every now and then I wand to experiment a little bit. Printing has always particularly interested me, as well as disciplines, related to photography, such as etching, litho-printing, rubber typing, etc".

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