Born in Moscow.

Education: Institute of Journalism

I studied with Igor Mukhin ("Igor Mukhin: the author's style in photography"/Rodchenko Art School).

Exhibitions:

"The breath of iron" (DT "Intellect", 2019);

"Zenith. Speer" (GUM, 2023)

Books:

Zine "Zenit. Speer" for the GUM exhibition

Projects:

Photos and illustrations for the book Tarasov S. V. My village : [collection of poems] / Tarasov Stanislav. - Moscow : Coincidence, 2017

Photos for the project "Feast" (theatrical production based on the play by Maxim Yakovlev, artistic director Hieromonk Siluan (Konev)) - 2023

Bio

I was born and raised in Moscow. In our family, my father and grandfather were fond of photography and when I was about 8-10 years old, they began to trust me with a camera. The process of creating photos seemed magical to me – from buying a film to the moment when dad or grandpa closed in a dark room, where it was strictly forbidden to enter, and the next morning the whole family was going to look at the resulting photographs. And although none of my relatives was a professional photographer, various photographic equipment, thematic magazines, pictures surrounded me constantly and seemed something natural and self-evident.

My main hobbies for a long time were the railroad and drawing (I even wanted to go to study to be an artist). I fell in love with trains from an early age. I had a toy railway that I could play with abandon for hours, and the real railway ran next to our dacha, where I was taken for the summer. I fell asleep and woke up to the sound of trains, watched them pass by our village, and, of course, loved to ride the train myself.

Later, I was interested in ethnography for a long time, in particular the North Caucasus, wrote and defended a diploma on this topic. I was constantly traveling and always took a camera with me. At some point in my life, I got into the company of narrow-gauge railway fans, where I met many interesting people who are also fond of history, ethnography, photography. At that time, there were still enough operating railways, and we made many unforgettable and exciting trips. That's probably when I started taking photography more seriously. We were constantly exchanging pictures, competing on thematic sites, and it already required some skills.

In addition to narrow-gauge railways, I continued to shoot an ordinary railway. And here, of course, steam locomotives are my special love. It is not easy to shoot the railway. For example, steam locomotives are most effective in the cold. More than once it happened that, standing in the snow waiting for maneuvers at -30 ° C, I already stopped feeling my fingers and hardly pressed the camera button. But it was worth it, because a steam locomotive throwing hot steam into the icy air with a noise is an unforgettable sight. Shooting a railway also requires patience and readiness that the locomotive you drove several hundred kilometers behind will not appear or will be 5 hours late.

A special stage in my life was studying at a Rodchenko Art School is on the course of Igor Mukhin. I took a completely different look at the photo and discovered a lot of new and interesting things. It was a wonderful time filled with creative work and communication with interesting people.

Photography is still not my profession, but it occupies an important place in my life, and I invite you to familiarize yourself with my work on this site.