I was born in Moscow. My life in the Soviet Union was very well cared by my parents and grand mother. I had a luxury of a cinema camera and a photo camera with all equipment for the dark room processing. The „room“ was actually the single bathroom. So in the times I enjoyed my photo hobby the whole family had to postpone taking a shower or do washing. I was feeling extremely happy when I printed a photo of my classmates with a scene of our school life. With years the passion to take photos of people surrounding me was getting only stronger.
I am married and have two sons, they are already grown up and I can spend more time doing what I really like in my free of full time job.
One of my long-term projects was finished in 2017. I completed my Jakobsweg journey in Switzerland. It took me about five years to go on weekends or holidays from Konstanz to the French border west of Geneva. I took about 10'000 photos along about 550 km.