I am engaged in a black and white photography since 2004. Just in this way the world for me is reflected on paper especially interestingly. Black and white photos possess a certain eye-catching mystery, that doesn’t allow to take your eyes off the image. Looking over a black and white photo it is possible to stay a long time near the wall, studying the lines captured by light on paper, moving closer, discovering new details of the picture.

Under shooting in large format it is possible to achieve incredible results of photo quality. And the contact print technique favours it more. The most part of the information of a sheet negative is transferred to a print without any quality loss (practically there is no light diffusion). That is photos turn out very sharp, "juicy". Besides a contact print I also use an optical printing which allows to get big size photos. Large format negative print gives excellent results even at strong zooming. Practically there is no photographic grain. While examining a print that gives an effect of presence, desire to plunge into the image, to extend borders of a printed photo and to step into it...

While shooting and printing I use the best lenses in the world. Lenses for large format photography have a very high quality. After all they should reproduce very precisely the image of the world around at its carrying over the big space of a sheet negative. Rare objectives for 35-mm cameras can brag of so high quality of the image.

Large format shooting demands respect to itself: you work slowly, measuring each following step. Large format cameras have a lot of fine tuning (tilt, swing...), allowing to embody the smallest details of shooting object without any distortions. It is a complete control over the image which gives a real pleasure.

I like to shoot black and white landscape on long exposure. It makes a picture more mysterious and dramatic. For the time present I experiment over such techniques of shooting (with the large format cameras it is difficult enough), but every trip brings more and more photos.