The Folies Bergère, a cabaret music hall. Paris, France. Photograph - Limited Edition of 15

I have traveled the world for business most of my life, but photography has always been my inner passion since I was a student. After retirement from business, I decided to focus entirely on photography. I continue taking photos, but since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, I have been photographing mainly in Ukraine. Now I have the opportunity to offer selected works from my vast photo archive to photography lovers all over the world. I will also be happy to offer my Ukrainian works that may be of interest to the world community. This would be too immodest a comparison, but I want to remind art lovers that Henri Rousseau, a French post-impressionist painter, also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), began painting seriously in his early forties; at the age of 49, he retired to devote himself fully to art. I also greatly respect Winston Churchill's artistic passion, who never quit politics but created 105 paintings simply for his pleasure. I love such an approach to self-expression in art, and in my case, in photography, for the aesthetic pleasure of my viewers and myself.