Summer twilight. (2019) Photography by Valerix

- A long time ago photography became a way of my life. My passion is to create interesting pictures with a story to tell.

- I love the kind of photo when it shots without a preparing. When the characters do not pose or do not expect that they are photographed. Perhaps this is street photography. But it doesn't matter... It may just be a tree, a wall, a shadow or cloud. But it's a good result if the photo is interesting to consider. I love when a picture speaks for itself. When you do not need to add anything. If there is an interesting composition, rhythm, space and depth. Usually, it did not need any processing. And most often it is good in black and white. I love minimalism in photography! Only a good moment or even a story, an interesting composition, pattern or the pure beauty of nature.

- Sometimes I want to add to the photos colors and picturesque. That is called the author's view. After processing, my photos gain a completely different look and mood. I edit a picture adding layers and using my own unique set of textures in many different color combinations. I use a brush like on canvas. I like to combine my photos with paint art process in addition. I'm doing everything to enhance mood, to show the state of nature. As a result, I get a unique picturesque photo.

- My first photo camera I got from my parents in 1983. And I am very grateful to them for this gift. Many years in my boyhood I took my camera everywhere I went! When I grew up and graduated from the Art College for a long time, the painting has captured me. But later I went back to an old passion - photography. In the present day, I continue to walk everywhere with the camera in my hands. I love when the subject can be found unexpectedly, just by the road when I go home... This may be some sort of plot, maybe just an interesting pattern of light, or a grand sunset. I try to find something that may surprise or inspire the viewer as well as me. The world is beautiful around us! Every side of nature, every minute has its own mood, each person - his own special character. I like to capture these moods and imprint them in pictures. The captured moments, they are like stopped time, an event that will never happen again. And when an occasional viewer, looking at my photos, gets carried away by the same feelings that inspired me to make a shot – this makes me a happy man.

• Nationality: UKRAINE
• Date of birth : 1967
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• Groups: Ukrainian Contemporary Artists