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Being a student of the painting department, I clearly understood that painting could not give me what I demanded from it. And why even should it, if I belong to a different visual "clan".

I started taking pictures back in school. More specifically, when I was skipping it. Once, my friend Vitya brought a photograph of a pig to the photo club at the Pioneer Palace and said, "This is Masha, my pig! I took this before my father...". That was the first time I felt the need to photograph and preserve everything. I started taking pictures back in school. More specifically, when I was skipping it. Once, my friend Vitya brought a

I love to observe. So, as a child, I often ran to my mother after school, who worked as a secretary in the Beringovsk Court. I would spend the evening sitting behind stacks of newspapers, secretly cutting out printed images. At home, I would review these cutouts and neatly store them in an old box. I believe it was during those moments that my sense of extraordinary joy from the visual portrayal of life through narrative, emotion, and form began to develop in me.

The geometry of forms in a photograph can tell a lot, including about the author themselves. Where there is beautiful light, there is poetry. Where everyday life reveals its unattractive sides, there is prose. Photography, in fractions of a second, gives me the most necessary resource of time, through which it is possible to convey the full potential of ongoing events.