... I am dreamer, believing that through ambitions we reach our goals. There is no limit to learning and experiencing things.

Coming from a former Soviet country, my actions were always questioned and I was not allowed to go the direction what I wanted to study. Thus, instead of following my dreams, I followed others', and ended up in a situation where I questioned myself, whether this is what I wanted to do and who I really am? Photography helps me break out of my shell and to be louder than I have ever been... Now is the time to follow my dreams... and want to know what are they? Just see the world through my eyes.

The first project is 'Lost in Time'. It is a black and white project submitted to the Monovisions Photography Awards. The photos are taken in Chernobyl and Pripyat, showing the desolation of the area, still present today, after the serious nuclear accident. Walking through the area in present day, felt like stepping back through time. Places, that were once filled with children laughing and playing, now abandoned in such a hurry that toys were left behind. Can you imagine a world without such life and joy? Being a child of 1986, born shortly after the accident, puts the life and death severity of the disaster into perspective. Had this accident happened where I was born and grew up, could one of those abandoned baby cribs have been mine?

The second project 'Under his eyes' is my photographic interpretation of Genesis: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light.'

The third project is called 'Life and Death'. There is sadness and there is happiness in life and death... Through these photos I want to portrait history and show the destruction it has left in our world. In contrast, I use photos of the happy moments in people's lives. Just imagine a city where you enter an empty places, no persons in the area, no babies in the wards, no children in the amusement parks... It is horrifying, is it not?