These shots represent personal work that stems from my ability to memorize faces even from a single glance.  In a “what if” scenario, I keep wondering what would happen if I was a cat or a giraffe by birth – what would human faces look like to me, then?

All the people on the pictures consented to being portrayed. As the series contains four self-portraits, I had to consent four times, too.

What if faces were covered in fur, or what if instead of regular veins, I could see the vein skeleton of a leaf through human skin? What if the casual beholder could not readily discern whether he saw something beautiful or ugly in my picture? When a person sees what I did to their face in the picture, they seem momentarily confused. 

I like to feel and watch various textures, so I just put one atop the other and got this picture as a result. It’s a very common technique, of course.

This optical tilt’n’shift-like effect was achieved by means of an auxiliary lens positioned and moved manually as the shot was being taken.
The pictures are straight from the camera with no editing whatsoever other than some post-production cropping.

I find absolutely stunning the wild creatures of nature, and I yearn to take pictures of them in their natural habitat. I would like to learn to capture reality, not just the way I see reality. Rather than artificially construct a scene, I’d prefer to wait and capture a scene in its natural flow.

This optical tilt’n’shift-like effect was achieved by means of an auxiliary lens positioned and moved manually as the shot was being taken.
The pictures are straight from the camera with no editing whatsoever other than some post-production cropping.

I am a self-taught photographer. It all began a few years ago when my boyfriend showed me the basics of operating a camera; the rest just came to me gradually. I was full of unrealized notions, ideas longing to find a way out.

Few people liked my pictures, and more than just a few found them scary and repulsive. People thought I was a freak, but to me, those pictures are above the notions of freakishness that you should be confessing to your psychiatrist about. It’s a manner of art for which I am but a diligent herald. I just had to make something like this. Had I chosen a different medium than pictures, they would have been made of macaroni or sculpted in snow, or otherwise expressed in one fashion or another. However, it’s a past period of my art, something I no longer try because it distracts me from the now.

Lately I’ve been interested in analog photography, something simple and meaningful. I experiment with various lenses and try to eliminate post-processing as much as possible. I like the natural blur effect as opposed to mixed textures and sharpness of my early works. I want a picture to look undistorted, representing what the beholder sees through his own eyes. Of course, the beholder might not always have perfect eyesight.

It doesn’t take much skill to take pictures, you can just grab a camera and see how it turns out. The main thing is never to stop when you see it’s turning out rather mediocre in the beginning.