I’m 31 and I’ve been dealing with photography for more than a half of my life. Whether it has become my profession or not, I really don’t know. It’s rather an integral part of my life, imperceptible but important as air, at the same time. I was given my first camera as a birthday present when I was 10 or so. And I still remember the moment I opened my eyes and saw the box on the edge of the table. I used that camera for quite a lot of years, 8 or more, and for all that time, the pictures were a complete crap. And as you can imagine it was nothing wrong with the camera, because in order to make good pictures, first you have to be able to see. When I hold my camera, my ultimate goal is to express the maximum of feelings and emotions with the minimum of lines and resources. In this sense Herb Ritz is the one who achieved it. He was a real eye-opener and his "Fred with tires" was a revelation to me. He managed to create something incredible out of spots of oil, tires and a man with a dirty boilersuit. He penned a wonderful story out of common words. I do my work the way my spectators could read something untrivial in the eyes of my models before the picture was taken and imagine what happened afterwards. Good pictures always have their own story to tell, and good photographers just tell these stories more frequently. My models are normal people. Sometimes I give them my business card on the street, sometimes I see someone on Facebook and just write "hello". Sometimes guys find me themselves. I like to see the surprise mixed with admiration in their eyes, when they look at their photos. It gives me such a huge shot of positive energy that even after hours of tiring shooting, I just realise that the lack of new ideas is temporary, that it’s just a matter having a good rest and making a new start the next day.