MArt Gallery Marata Str., 35 191002 Saint-Petersburg Russie
Musician In the past on the nickname of "LIS”.
Free-lance photographer.
The member of Union of Artists of RUSSIA.
He uses analog old cameras and black-and-white films and prints photographs by hand in “Dark room”. Sometimes he also paints his photographs by the acrylic paint.
Now he writes the book about the photography «Conversations with the father…” He considers that the creation does not disappear, but it is transformed into other regions skill. He began to photograph in 2000 as everybody - city, people, landscape… More greatly he pleased to make portraits. By the first serious discovery and as stimulus for further creation served German photographer Robert Hoiser's exhibition in the Marble palace of Russian museum in 2001 in Saint Petersburg. This exhibition gave to understand that it is possible to photograph all, but only with one condition - if you see BEAUTY AND HARMONY.
As mom and grandmother were tailors, and he grew for the knock of sewing machine Singer, then fashion always attract him. And he began to photograph the Fashion Show. In his archive there are work of the well-known St. Petersburg designers Tanya Kotegova, Larissa Pogoretskaya, Tatiana Parfenova, Alexander Petrov and others. In parallel, he made portfolio for the models, dancers, actors, well-known people.
The second powerful push in the creation was Helmut Newton with his beautiful female thematic. By his creation and by works he showed that the female exposed beauty can be transmitted without the banality and the frank components, and each time in a new way, opening step by step the World of Woman. Therefore in his works Lis tries to show the main thing in the creation - BEAUTY IN HARMONY, HARMONY IN BEAUTY
Olga Ljaljakina - Director “Mart” Gallery