about dmitryzubarev
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How do you write your own BIO when you are young? I used to think that Bios are written by people whose lives are mostly behind them or by artists who made a significant contribution to culture or society. After all, what is a Bio but the summary of the life we’ve lived, the dreams we’ve had and the goals we’ve achieved … then, even at my age, I have something to share.I’m 25 and I’m an artist. I am the bright example of how one’s hobby, which was hidden in the shade for a long time, became one’s lifework. And I should say I’m really proud to write these words, for photography makes the biggest part of me now.
I have always been interested in fine arts, starting from my childhood. Unfortunately, I couldn’t embody my ideas on the paper … I wasn’t good at drawing. And my mind was overfilling with ideas from year to year. They were standing in the wings, waiting for Photography to unleash them.
I can’t say that I’ve started making masterpieces right from the first time I took the camera in my hands. No, it didn’t happen this way, as it never does. What I’ve done first is that I entirely disassembled my camera, destroyed it into pieces and study what was inside, I was curious of its mysterious mechanism. After a while, I met a friend, who introduced me to my own passion, the one thing I will truly dedicate my life to. Yet, at that time, it didn’t strike me as so and I didn’t really think much of this stuff, I just made a frame on the guy’s camera, and that was it.
Some years have passed, I was growing up, looking for me, searching my path, and as for photography… it was always near. So close indeed, that I didn’t pay much attention to it at that moment. I only fully realized its importance in my life when I reached 21. Then I understood that the 5 years I’ve spent studying economy at the university had been a waste of my time. My calling was elsewhere. So I decided to study photography.
But unfortunately, I didn’t find any university or college that would provide me proper education on this subject in my city. There were indeed some courses and master classes available, but I found that none of their work was of any interest, their views and the education they proposed seemed too far from my visual quest. In consequence, I thought I could learn about photography by myself. I inquired, search, found and read a lot of books on the subject, until I discovered some online training, such as: Kelby Training, Lynda.com, etc. I watched everything I could find and not only training and classes, but also biographical movies on some of the world’s most remarkable photographers. Through self teaching, I learned from the greatest teachers, professors I actually never personally met. Those photographers, that will always inspire me, are among others: Annie Leibovitz, Gregory Crewdson, Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, David LaChapelle and lots of others I didn’t mention, but they are close to me in spirit.
Nowadays I’ve changed my attitude toward photography and the vision I had of it. My interest go further than just taking a “good picture” as much in term of quality as in the subject. My work is filled with sense and there’s always a message to the viewer. I really have something to show, and so many stories to tell. The first one was the “PERSONALITY FACETS” project. It became a starting point in my artistic career. This project is now exposed at the Escher gallery, Kiev. It truly reveals my vision of art and it is based on three main ingredients: psychology, drama, and provocation. I love the way those three combined components arouse viewer’s emotions, deeply touching their feelings. Pictures pass through their heart, pictures can be engrave in their soul, pictures will overwhelm their thoughts, making people feel, making people think, introduce them to a wider shade of emotions … and most of all: pictures don’t let the viewer remain indifferent or empty. And isn’t it what photography is all about?
