What's up everybody? Welcome back to the show. I want to revisit the work of Alexi Tetarenko in this video today and he's somebody I've talked a lot about lately mainly because I got a chance to meet him the week before last when I was in Los Angeles. If for some reason you haven't seen that video I will link that up in the

show description because I was able to do a little bit of an interview with him. And Alexi is

amazing. I remember the first time I ran across his work this was years ago and

he was very much this obscure photographer from Russia

that did this amazing work and I remember just googling trying to find more information or an

interview with a guy and really was turning up nothing. There was a lot of talk on photography

forums of people that were trying to emulate that style and so it obviously had a large

attraction with photographers but that was a battle I could find and I remember

when his first book City of Shadows came out and I bought that and I was just fascinated with the images in there and it was somebody I never really expected to run across or get to talk to and when we weren't rolling the camera I ended up spending a lot of time with

him and talked a lot about his work with him and that's what I want to share with you

today you know I think with a lot of very successful artists there's something

initial about their work that communicates to us as viewers that

draws us in and I think in the case of Alexi Teterrenko it was certainly the long exposures done

in daylight with these large crowds of people creating this smoke-like motion

moving through the image and then the more you start to get into their work more starts

to unveil itself to you as a viewer and certainly getting to talk to Alexi one of the things

I was most impressed with are his technical skills both as a photographer and a printer

and he's got such a wonderful aesthetic and concept that come across in his work.

That wasn't the first thing that hit me, but then when you're actually looking at his prince,

you realize this guy is like unbelievably good.

In further talking to him, a lot of it was growing up in Russia at the time that he did and having very limited access to materials.

So only one type of film or only one grade contrast of paper to print on and so how do you get around those limitations and those are the things that

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