Maxsim Drobinenko

Maxim Drobinenko is a photo artist from Ukraine. He specializes in humanistic photography. He creates his works based on the knowledge gained at the Academy of realist art and the visual experience of classical and modern painting. In his photographs, he exposes the existentialism of human nature through the prism of his own experiences.



The heroes are given space, time and a situation in which they can interact with the camera through the manifestation of their feelings. The principle of constructing an image by capturing the moment without personal intervention, thereby immersing the viewer into a new state of being, giving importance to the figurative inner experiences of the heroes of the shooting.



As a teenager, I was always worried about my own existence in extreme social conditions, the sensations of the nature of human experiences excited my consciousness. Shooting for me is immersion in myself, documentary fixation of the moment when the hero is left alone with himself, plunging into internal mental metamorphoses. And each frame is akin to the thinnest slice of time saved for eternity.

Svyatoslav Brakhnov Academy of realist art

In the curriculum of the Academy:

● Copying works of old masters

● Copy over classic tables

● Drawing of the impression (plaster head)

● Fundamentals of Plastic Anatomy

● Drawing of a living model (portrait, torso, figure)

● Fundamentals of painting technology and painting materials

● Basics of color (grisaille, limited palette, building color relationships and coloration)

● Painting (portrait, nude torso, nude, landscape)

● Basics of composition in the visual arts

● Psychology of visual perception

● Principles of organizing the compositional plane

● Proportioning

● Golden ratio

● Principle of determining the format of the picture, harmonious and dynamic rectangles.

● Method of polyphonic counterpost

● Method of painting

● Art history