Born in 1957 in Soviet Russia, I have started taking pictures in 60s, influenced by my father’s interest in photography and filming. I have been using the media as an amateur for the most of my life and came to a serious photography in late 90s. But it had not become my passion until after moving from Russia to the USA I started the “Walking downtown” project related to the urban environments and to the interaction of humankind with the “machine” it build to “live in”. The project had resulted in 2 books I have published:“La Machine a Habiter” and “Selected photographs”

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