Slava Eremin

I think of myself as a time catcher (or is it a light catcher?)

I like feeling the weight of the camera in my hand.

I am a photo taker much more than an image maker. I aspire to capture rather than conjure.

No disrespect to image making but it just doesn't thrill me quite as much as ambushing and capturing light in its natural habitat - time ..

.. watching, being patient, paying attention, waiting for the offering and accepting it. Once I got my reward I just need to tease the essence out of it , respecting what I've been offered nonetheless. Keeping the lifeline from my photo back to reality is essential to me, the pulse has to be there.

The randomness of a shot, the uniqueness of the captured moment is what fascinates me and defines the heart of photography for me.

I started a while ago, 40 years give or take, with black and white film so light and shade palette came first and to this day I retained some of black and white mentality looking for light and shade even in colour.

I was born in the land of Leo Tolstoy in the year of Hard Day's Night and moved to New Zealand 25 years ago.

Master of Arts (Linguistics)
Philological Faculty
Moscow State University