The Oh, I was studying the piano in a musical school and I dropped it because I was studying

the piano in a musical school and I dropped it because I was really amazed by photography

and started to spend more time in a photography studio than in a musical school classes.

The fact that I was somehow educated in this field and was also a spectator in this concert when I work in

as an assistant of administrator this big concert hall for classical music in St. Petersburg,

played an essential role dominating the way I was considering photography. in the city of

considering photography so there's something that helped me to build

actually this body of work the the serious city of shadows what the music of

Shostakovich in the music of Shostakowevich. In the city of Shadows, this music helped me not

only to find the way to build this money pictures as an ensemble, but find a real subject matter to photograph.

For example, the cell concert, number two. The music is so narrative,

though you actually see images there. The images I saw helped by what I knew about Shostakovitch life

pushed me to go to certain places, take certain images, the introduction, the beginning of the second shallow concert.

It's a music with long exposure somehow.

If you start to listen, and it's so long, so slow, and it's, it's, it's showed the state of despair that becoming somehow more playful at the end and it's similar to the life itself. I'm not going to Oh, This impulse came from understanding that there is something visually important that

translate in a visual way the situation the creating a metaphor of what happened with people, the whole nomenclature of science,

it was a way to describe by visual language what was happening with the people in the Soviet Union.

They were just not a human being. they became science, that's something that you may just

erased. From the time unfortunately they go back they became shadows

when that idea unconsciously came to my mind.

It gave me an impulse to take image.

I never, never managed to prepare anything before. The whole idea for me of art was that it

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