About

I was born in Russia and grew up in Moscow. I'm a lawyer by profession — corporate work, international transactions, the kind of job that leaves little room for ambiguity. Photography is where I go for everything else.

I've been making photographs since 2006 — always alongside whatever else was happening: work, travel, family, life in different cities. For a few years the camera stayed home more than I'd like to admit. This site is partly an attempt to fix that — to give my creative life the same attention I give everything else.

Now I live in Istanbul with my wife, two sons, and a Jack Russell who has strong opinions about everything. I moved here in 2022, and the city is still revealing itself to me — which is one of the better things a city can do.

My interest is in stories more than in perfect frames. Some of the trips I've made were built around photography — workshops, projects, places I needed to see through a lens. A few of those have shaped how I see things; the most important ones will find their way here. The photographers who matter to me are interesting people first: Georgy Pinkhassov, Sergei Maksimishin, Sebastião Salgado, Elliott Erwitt — and Ara Güler, whose Istanbul I'm now lucky enough to inhabit.

Here is where I keep what I've made and what I'm making — old projects finally given a home, new ones still forming, and occasional notes on what it means to pay attention.