I was born in Novgorod in 1986. Since 2008, I have been living in Moscow. My passion for photography began in childhood. For my eleventh birthday, my parents gave me a film “point-and-shoot” camera, which I used until I graduated from university. For the last couple of years, I’ve been shooting with a Nikon D850. Due to my new passion for photo hunting, I had to upgrade to a more advanced camera.

I have a degree in theoretical physics and work at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. My colleagues are used to seeing me with a camera. They, along with my family and friends, support me in everything, and all of them became the initiators of publicly showcasing my photographs.

I do not have a formal photographic education. However, I continually strive to improve my skills through daily work. I consider my teachers, or rather my inspirations (through lectures and books), to be Alexander Iosifovich Lapin, Moisey Solomonovich Napplebaum, Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky, and others. The driving force behind my creativity is a sense of nostalgia and the desire not to miss the essential. Perhaps that is why these particular approaches in photography evoke a special interest for me.

Recently, I have developed a love for shooting documentary and genre photography with a Soviet Helios lens. This introduces unpredictability into the shooting process, teaching me to be patient and to quickly respond to changes in the scene. The number of unusable shots is significantly higher, but the pleasure from the successful ones is much greater than when using advanced modern optics. Interesting photographs in the genre can also be achieved with a monocle.

My serious approach to photography began in early 2023. It was only from March 2023 that I started to independently explore the possibilities for modern photographers—magazines, competitions, festivals, and exhibitions.

As of today, I am a finalist in the IPA 2024, I am included in the top 150 wildlife photographers of the 35awards, the top 150 reportage photographers of the 35awards, and the winner of 2024 in the category “Protected Russia” in the “Most Beautiful Country” contest by the Russian Geographical Society with the work “Fox Cub and Dill.”