Author of the book “Light Is Everything • And Composition” — ISBN 978-617-8025-41-0
I picked up my first camera at the age of seven. It was 1981, and the camera was a Smena-8M.
As a child, I mastered the secret techniques of glazing prints on glass and developing photos in the bathroom under red safelights. But back then, I knew nothing about photography. Well, I did learn the process, of course, and I could estimate exposure by eye with only minor deviations from the readings of an exposure meter. Still, my real passion for photography began much later: after I learned words like composition, context, and color variability.
By the way, I am generally the kind of person who gets carried away with things. As a child, I was interested in sports, and around that time I earned sports ranks in target shooting, kayaking, judo, and parachuting. In my youth, I got into graphomania, and after graduating from the Metallurgical Academy, I worked as a newspaper correspondent, then as editor-in-chief of a magazine, and later as a literary editor at another magazine. I even wrote a couple of short stories.
Later, advertising production entered my circle of interests, and I spent seven years working as a marketer. Journalism remained a hobby, and for a couple of years I worked in television, where I found myself on both sides of the camera: as a camera operator and as a TV host. Marketing gave way to internet project management, while photography became my second profession — or perhaps my first — and eventually won. Today, my professional life is connected only with photography. As for hobbies, the list includes cycling and billiards.
