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Forza Horizon 5 – Game Time

Forza Horizon 5 Video Game

The cat is out of the bag! Nobody knew I spent a large part of 2019-2020 working on a secret project with a secret codename. Namely, I was doing research and reference photography throughout Mexico for the now widely known smash hit racing video game Forza Horizon 5 created by the genre-defining UK developer Playground Games and published […]


Pacha Kuti: The Golden Path

Not so long ago, in the world before Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic, our little crew embarked on a wild production adventure around Manú National Park in Peruvian Amazon, with a mission to make a short film for NatGeo Wild. Far from luxurious or easy, this trip challenged me to the core of my being, but what […]


ART WITH ME: Tulum 2019

This post is long overdue, nonetheless I still think about Art With Me 2019 event with so much gratitude. I had my first photography exhibition Head in the Clouds as part of the festival in Tulum and thanks to the generous support of Sanará whose entire team encouraged me every step of the way and provided […]


I Pledge Allegiance to Yosemite National Park of America

Truly one of the most iconic national parks in the world is Northern California’s Yosemite National Park. I am beyond grateful to have spent the last few days of 2018 surrounded by the spectacular beauty and changing colors of its winter landscape so famously marked by the massive granite rock formations I have always dreamt […]


High-Rise Kingdom: Sequoia National Park

As I discovered first-hand on my recent trip to Northern California over Christmas, during the winter months in Sierra Nevada mountains at altitudes above 6000 feet there lies real magical winter wonderland… This is where one can meet some of the most fascinating creatures on Earth known as Giant Sequoias or Redwoods or simply Big […]


Full Circle in Chiapas

Below are the photos taken recently during my second trip through Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas. My first trip to this stunning destination happened six years ago in 2012 under very different circumstances. Back then I was two years in to my new life in Tulum, still at the beginning of my photography career and […]


Yoga & Adventures Worldwide: Tulum, Mexico

After all my travels with Yoga & Adventures Worldwide documenting their yoga retreats in Cuba, Morocco and Portugal, it was time for the homecoming. So we finally teamed up for one more amazing photoshoot on our own home turf in Tulum, Mexico, to capture all the local magic.  


Yoga & Adventures Worldwide: Portugal

Yoga & Adventures Worldwide is truly a client worth sweating for! After our unforgettable adventures in Cuba and Morocco, I knew their yoga retreat in Portugal wouldn’t disappoint. I was right. We hiked some incredible cliffs and waterfall beaches, we ate local farm-to-table food, we drank lots of crazy-good red (and green!) wine, and of […]


Yoga & Adventures Worldwide: Morocco

Welcome to Morocco! After having such an amazing time in Cuba, I teamed up once again with my wonderful client Yoga & Adventures Worldwide to document their authentically rich local yoga and culinary adventure experience in Essaouira and Marrakech. Throughout my life Morocco always had a very strong personal pull, so I jumped at the […]


Yoga & Adventures Worldwide: Cuba Libre

Thanks to my wonderful new client Yoga Adventures Worldwide I was able to fulfill my old Soviet childhood dream to visit and photograph Cuba. Here’s my photo-trip from the melting wedding cake rooftops of the Old Havana to the lush Viñales region with salsa dancing in between. Sending love and gratitude to all the unforgettably beautiful faces I […]


Lake Titikaka and Beyond: Adventures in Bolivia

After filming for weeks in the deep Amazonian jungles of Manu National Park in Peru, we gave ourselves the gift of not much rest and more travel. Thus we embarked on this fabulous adventure through the exotic lands surrounding Lake Titicaca to Bolivia’s capital La Paz and ending in the mesmerizing giant desert of salt […]


Filming a documentary in Peru

Documentary Film

Dear friends of my work, I’m pleased to present the preview demo of my new documentary film project in Peru. This story about indigenous Machiguenga people of Manú National Park has preoccupied my mind and heart during all of past year and I hope you watch, share and support our efforts to give these communities […]


Ghosts of Guatemala

To travel through the volcanic landscapes surrounding Lake Atitlan and old city of Antigua in Guatemala is to experience magic…  


Return of the Machiguenga

In March-April, 2015, we traveled to Manú National Park biosphere reserve in Peru to begin filming a documentary about isolated indigenous communities of Machiguenga (Matsiguenga) people living in the Amazon rainforest along Manú and Madre de Dios rivers. Guided by two local shamans, we visited several native communities and spoke to their elders about ongoing […]


Inside Peru

I spent most of September, 2014, traveling in Cusco Region of Southern Peru. Following an old personal dream to explore and photograph various parts of this region, I stepped way outside my own comfort zone and into another mysterious world as the ancient perspective of Inca unfolded before my senses. From Cusco to Pisac, Calca, […]


Hanal Pixán 2013 – Abandoned Hacienda Expo

Hanal Pixan 2013 Cholul Expo

Couple of weeks ago, during Mexico’s Day of the Dead weekend I was visiting my two photographer friends – Masha Osipova and Mauricio Palos – in Merida, Yucatán. We decided to play a 24-hour game. The objective was to: 1. Conceive of an idea for a photo-shoot using historically or culturally significant location We scouted Merida’s incredible abandoned haciendas left over […]


Copper Town: Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán

In this story I’m switching gears to Central Mexico. Two months ago while traveling through Pátzcuaro region in the state of Michoacán I visited a magic little town called Santa Clara del Cobre. Since the Pátzcuaro region is mostly populated by the Tarascan or P’urhépecha people whose ancestors originally settled here in the 12th century, […]


Maya Sky

I spent the night of December 21 doing what I love most – shooting the sky. Completely impromptu at 1am, I drove with a friend to the nearby archeological site of Muyil, 25 km from Tulum, Mexico, woke up the sleeping Mayan guard and convinced him to let me shoot the deserted pyramid in the […]


On Maya Space and Time

The much hyped about date of December 21, 2012, is a couple of days away. Since I live on Yucatan peninsula, land of the Maya, many people ask me what I think about the Mayan calendar and its prediction of the end of the world. The truth is, since I make the choice to live […]


Day of the Dead 2012: Night at the Cemeteries

Day of the Dead

During the Night of November 1-2 is Noche de los Muertos. In central Mexico’s state of Michoacan, local residents of towns around lake Pátzcuaro with fun-to-pronounce ancestral Tarascan names like Tzintzuntzan, Ihuatzio, and Chucuchucho, take their Day of the Dead traditions very seriously. With great curiosity I joined their annual pilgrimage to nearby cemeteries for all-night vigils in order to […]


Day of the Dead 2012: Pátzcuaro Region, Mexico

Dia de los Muertos

Last week I was sponsored by Mexico Kan Tours, Tulum-based agency specializing in conscious travel, to visit central Mexico’s state of Michoacan for a photo-reportage of the famous Day of the Dead festivities held in towns and villages near Morelia and lake Pátzcuaro. Sharing the same values in travel with my friends at Mexico Kan […]


Good Night New York

Like a migratory bird, I recently flew south to Mexico for winter. But before I switch to posting images of sunny skies, turquoise waves and pre-columbian cities, I want to share these last few night-time photos of New York. To everyone I dearly miss in my favorite concrete jungle – I say goodnight and sweet […]


Urban Landscapes: New York City

I continue my urban image series with these soaring landscapes of New York. Encompassing day and night, earth and sky, light and water, this is my humble homage to the city that knows the secret to remaining beautiful and energetic despite continuous lack of sleep.


Bed-Stuy Sky

Life has been particularly stimulating this summer in New York. After a rather lengthy break from posting new images, I finally return with a new line-up of photo-stories about this dynamic city. The first series is about gritty September skies observed during my recent stay in one of Brooklyn’s most colorful neighborhoods – Bedford-Stuyvesant. Taking […]