Glow me #09 - Limited Edition of 25 Photograph

About me? Well... I picked up a camera when I was 17 years old (in 2009). It was Mom's Konica Minolta. My family did not have the opportunity to buy a camera for me personally. Therefore, perhaps it would be more correct to say that at the age of 17 I started carrying a camera from my mother. Then I had no idea what exactly I was going to shoot, so I shot everything in general: from bugs to girlfriends. After six months of my strange experiments, I came to the conclusion that in the near future it is definitely most interesting for me to shoot people. Since the ideas in my head arose with the direct participation of the model. After another year, I realized that I was ready to do photography, well, if not all my life, then a very large period of it. And against the background of this thought, I left the institute. Of course, I couldn't immediately start earning money by photography, so I went to work as a waitress in a cafe. I spent a substantial part of the money I earned on creating a portfolio. Although I must say that I have never treated this process exactly as "creating a portfolio". I just liked to shoot. Time passed and I changed jobs. I was invited to an online store to shoot catalogs. There was no limit to happiness - I will finally earn money by photography! However, I didn't last there for long, since daily, uniform and meaningless shooting of clothes (ugly besides) discouraged any desire to even look towards the camera in my free time. It was 2012. Despite the uninteresting work, communication with colleagues led me to understand that it's great when a photo is not just technically horsho made, but also carries some meaning. Even if this meaning is clear only to you. This is how photography acquires a foundation. And I started working in this direction. Of course, my ideas did not always have this very foundation. What's there: I took off a huge pile of junk! And yet, looking back now, it is those works in which I invested meaning that I still like. Except for post-production, of course. It's terrible there, so now I have to update some old works. Mid-2013: my friends suggested me to create a modeling agency. Fashion! Models! Of course, I immediately agreed. And now, turning around, I realize that it was then that my "escape from myself" took place. A lot was filmed. Sooo much. After all, it lasted from the middle of 2013 to the end of 2017.