Photography is, or can be, a way of life. Photography brings together my love for nature and travel and a vivid sense of color, design and composition I always had. Photography, as any art, is a tool of exploring yourself. And it is quite a journey.

I was born in Russia, in a remote town in Eastern Siberia. Coming from a family of geologists I spent from early age all my summers in expeditions traveling and camping in remote places of Siberian wilderness. I was left pretty much on my own in a camp and I spent a lot of time hiking and wondering alone. Nature was my home, not the city. The way you spend your childhood is imprinted in you for the rest of your life. As an adult I am destined to live in a city, but I never felt that it is my true home. This longing feeling for lost nature and open wide spaces has brought me to landscape photography and love for travel.

And then I discovered my other passion – printmaking. First, it was magic of silver halide in the wet darkroom and later on it became a gentle power of color in digital darkroom. Making a physical object, a print out of photographic image is one of the most gratifying experiences. And at the end the texture of a print, the sense of touch and size, color tonality and detail contrast transforms a photographic image into a true piece of art.

My recent work can be summed up in two words: vibrant landscapes. My main subject is color and it can be found in grand mountain landscapes in fall season or in macrophotography of tiny landscapes of spring and summer wildflowers. For the last years I come again and again to the same places in Colorado, California, Tuscany and Upper Midwest to find new light, new color and new melody in my photography. I don’t call myself a photographer, I call myself an artist who uses photography as a medium…