Was born in one of the oldest town in Russia – Novgorod the Great. When I was a child, my mother was fond of painting. I never learned to draw, but she was able to instill in me a love of art. Having graduated from university with a degree in graphic design, I began to get seriously interested in photography only at the age of 27, and by that time I had not seriously studied it anywhere. I have several of international and one personal photo exhibition under my belt.