Cifography

When I was 13 I was taking dark room classes while the other kids where playing soccer or taking dance lessons. I was then using an old Zenit camera that my dad had brought from Russia. I fell in love with Photography right there and then, but always did it for fun. At age 30 I decided to double major and enroll at the Academy of Art . It has been the best decision I have ever made, to say the least, and there is not a day I wake up regretting it. I think photography, I see photography, I dream photography. I try to see farther than just the physical object. I find a feeling in them that I want to evoke on the viewer and try to connect with the subject to tell a story without words by adding little hints of the environment around them. There is more to photography than technique, or having a good camera. For the most part I like to capture The Others, multiculturalism, and document the cultural aspects, the joys and struggles of the human being and implement storytelling in my photography. I have always been attracted to any photography that represents the different conflicts and cultures around the world and I love to travel and capture the essence of the human joy and struggle in different scenarios.