Profile

I am a photographer, visual artist and writer. In my latest projects I like to study patterns in space and time, searching to reveal the generally unnoticed complexity and purpose living inside natural events, especially when observed over extended intervals. These visual experiments tend to fit into the larger scope of my work, where I like to explore such ideas as relativity and relatedness between individual and environment, and specifically how they contribute to formation of identity. My particular interest in concept of time began when I was five.

I grew up in Minsk, Belarus, and was educated in the former Soviet Union and United States. University years at UW-Madison and Columbia College were followed by a decade-long graphic design career in Chicago. Next, modest exploration of acting and self-revealing creative writing courses at University of Chicago led to a graduation from commercial life and a subsequent move to Mexico.

Currently I am based in Riviera Maya, from where I travel and photograph various regions of Mexico, with a goal to gain a deeper understanding of how this country’s incredibly complex collective psychology, rooted in ancient pre-Columbian cultures, relates to modern human experience.