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Photography entered my life late, at the age of twenty-four, with a toyish, 1936 Kodak Retina. Brought by my grandpa as a trophy in 1945 from World War II, I found the camera in the attic some 40 years later in perfect working condition! I always felt reverential trembling for my father’s huge "wooden" boxes — dad was professional photographer — but this small, folding rangefinder was not frightening at all. It was a time of big changes in post-soviet space, a time of big changes and big opportunities. Holding degrees in Fine Art Painting and Architecture and having a passion for photography, I went in the opposite direction and dove, for 12 years, into erratic but promising post-soviet business. Having started almost from a private basement, our printing company had grown to one of the biggest privately owned printing-houses in the country. Business was big and successful, with hundreds of employees, big clients, high-end equipment and international awards. We believed in the young Ukrainian democracy and became a main publishing support for the pre-election campaign of one of the Ukrainian Presidential candidates. Democracy proved to be too young with a loud bone crash. I immigrated to the United States with my wife Margarita and my daughter Izabella in January 2000, and we started our new life. It wasn’t a political emigration or exile after all. We were allowed to stay. We just got tired of everything and wanted changes. We got it. I’m back to my Art and Photography now. I sell Fine Art prints and stock images, shoot products for advertising, and go on assignment for clients. My passion is landscape and nature photography, and I travel a lot. I run photo-travel workshops several times a year and they usually sell out in a couple of days. I’m in demand as an author for most of the big Russian photography and travel magazines, and I’m getting a positive response from readers.
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