I began to study photography late, at the age of 24, in the fall of 1982.

After school, I studied for some time at the Faculty of Bridges and Tunnels in Moscow State University of Railway Engineering. Performance of Construction Materials was not a problem for me, but going to classes was. I loved to travel, to wander in the woods. These desires have not gone away till now.

Soon I leave the institute. Sometimes I worked as a street cleaner, then as a watchman, I also worked in boiler station. These professions, which did not require special skills, were popular among young people with uncertain creative energies.

Much more than I worked, I traveled with a backpack, spent the night in haystacks and around campfires. And hitchhiked a lot. On one of these trips (to Ferapontovo, where is the frescoes of Dionysius) I've met a man who soon gave me a Zenith and a photo magnifier, and after looking at the results, he let me into his workshop and introduced me to the circle of professional photographers. Thank you very much, Vladimir Matveyevich Potapov!

So it turned out that, bypassing the stage of photostudios and clubs, less than a year after the first photographic experiments (and these were the simplest still lifes – I walked not only through forests, but also through museums and roughly understood the elementary principles of composition), I became a freelance photojournalist for Vneshtorgizdat. The travels continued.

It's just a pity that after a few years as ended together with the Soviet times and the Soviet Union.

During this time, of course, I have learned something. First of all, the quality of shooting, technically it is not easy to shoot on a slide. And now I'm trying to photograph and process the material so that I can use the result in printing. I have always considered myself more professional than an artist.

Digital photography at that time was taking only the first steps, the skills to work with film made it possible for me to photograph everything that was offered. Mainly for printed publications: booklets, catalogs, albums. There are practically no archives preserved. Apparently, it turned out well if they offered it even in the Armory of the Moscow Kremlin.

But one way or another, life in Russia was changing. In my circle, working relationships were based on personal contacts, and somehow I didn't fit into the network advertising agencies that appeared.

Since the mid-90s, I haven't shoot almost anything for ten years, sometimes there wasn't even a camera. But I still considered myself a photographer, even if I worked as a prop designer or a stoker in a country church. That's probably why, when I bought the first digital camera in 2004 and started getting acquainted with the computer, I returned to the profession quite easily.

Tenpercentery, advertising, theater, subject shooting, painting... and I photographed a lot in the most unsuitable conditions.

I spent a lot of time on microstocks for several years. It was for them that I began constantly photographing the landscape. Of course, I have always filmed nature. Even calendars with my pictures sometimes came out. But it was stock photography that made me a landscape painter who is afraid to leave home without a camera. Suddenly, I will miss some extraordinary state or phenomenon of nature.

From 2013 to the present time I have been working in the Muranovo estate. Here they came in handy (and significantly improved) all previous skills and abilities. The world of even a small museum-reserve is very diverse. A large collection of works of applied art and painting requires the most careful attention of the photographer, photographs of interiors and architecture are always needed for advertising and social networks of the museum, view shots of the park and the surrounding area (and they are beautiful) – too. And, as never before, I shoot a lot of reportage.

Any biography or resume of a photographer includes a long list of exhibitions and competitions in which he participated. But I have nothing to brag about here. However, in the fall of 2023, the museum celebrated my 65th birthday with a small exhibition "Landscapes of museum photographer".

The guides say that visitors like the exhibition.