That just first draft of my works. I have plan to make a book about that story, but now I not ready enough. Maybe just moral. I still discover that city and still shoot photo. At that time very hard for me to make right select and description. Will see what will be later. in any way, that book will be finish sometimes.
I was born in Russia in a small industrial town at the far east. Graduated from Polytechnic University, majoring in mathematics. After graduation, moved to Khabarovsk and lived there for two years. Since the end of 2009, I became interested in photography. Initially, I was interested in portraits and fashion shooting. Worked with local magazines. Sometimes published in international magazines dedicated to contemporary art. In late 2012, I received a grant to study a Masters in China, majoring filmmaker. Since then I arrived in Chongqing. My life and preferences have changed. Most of the time I spend on travel and study space where I live. I made several major trips in Asia and Russia. I was fascinated in street and genre photography. As time the emphasis in the photos and videos are increasingly reduced to the documentary and journalism. Now I'm moving in this direction. I came to this project recently. There was a decision to make a book about Chongqing. Reviewing the material and walking around the city, I became more and more to pay attention to how people live. I have something to compare, after living in small Komsomolsk. In the summer of 2014 I took a trip to Sakhalin. He impressed me with the specifics of life on the island. It gave me an even greater understanding of life in closed and limited spaces.
However, Chongqing became for me something more serious than yet another residence. He is very closely connected with my experiences and thoughts. For those, who know me, will not be a secret that I live in my own world. Chongqing gave me the basis for this. This is my little personal utopia. Remember the old movie "Metropolis". He will not like the Chongqing? I never set myself the task of making a complete picture of the city, as well as does not attempt to objectively convey life in it. That's impossible. All these works - just my feeling, what I feel and remember being in it, how it affects me. This is my world of mazes and people. A world where people are poachers in these jungles. Adapt them for yourself. Soon I will leave this city. I always leave. This work - my tribute to this city. This inexplicable phenomenon. Enough grim tribute. But I would not call my thoughts gloomy. Limited space is manifested in the limited light. This is actually a very sophisticated city, with its chaos and waste. With its constant weather and smog. Most of the population is beyond the threshold or at the poverty line. But this happy people. When I go out, I see thousands of smiles. I see children playing and old people scurrying everywhere, players cards and smiling ban-ban. Therefore, my photos about people. Even where the people in the picture are not present. I find it interesting to watch and very curious how this city will be in the future. But this we will see later.
