Childhood memoirs

Pictures from my project "Childhood memoirs", wish I submitted with my application for MA Photography course. I got the place on the course and would like to share it with you.

 

 

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I was planning to create this post for quite a long time. 

The photographs were comissioned by the "Sunny city" charity in my home town Novosibirsk, Russia. My task was to make simple portraits for this kids at the Orphanage for infants, so that they would have pictures of their own and also for their future parents. These were the most important photographs I ever did.

It was very emotional photoshoot, which took me 2 days in total to complete. I don't feel like I am able to explain here all the mixture of feelings I got from it. Here are some of the photographs I took.

Ivan's birthday

Last Saturday I replaced one photographer and photographed children from an orphanage. It was Ivan's birthday that day, he became 12, so a Charity organised special entertainment for those children - Ivan and his friends. It was not the first time I photographed children from orphanage and I was always amazed how childness and maturity combine in them. They want the same things as usual children, but many more things can make them happier - things we don't appreciate when they are so usual and affordable. Their eyes are so experienced and thoughtful. In a quite moment I tried to look at those children's eyes and imagine what they were thinking about...