Siberian Fashion Week backstage

Some pictures from my backstage shoot of Siberian Fashion week. It's been a new experience for me, which will lead to a new project I'm starting to work on hopefully soon...

Nowruz

My trip to Kazakhstan happened to be the days when Kazakhstan (as well as some other Asian countries) celebrated Nowruz - New Year - the biggest national holiday. Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the ancient calendar. I could not resist to take some pictures.

Letters from home

It's great to be back home! It's the first time in about 6 years I'm spending so much time here. Wired feeling. Listening to music I was fond of long time ago, look through old photographs. I didn't realise how many things I have forgotten - just left them behind, never had a thought of them during theseyears. I think it is good to move forward, but also to look back from time to time. 


P.S. Going to Kazakhstan tomorrow for 4 days, havent been there for about 10 eyars or so...

Shi Cashmere Autumn/Winter 2010 shoot

It was my almost first experience to shoot a collection lookbook for the same company for the 2nd time. We also decided to work with the same model and same make-up artist, as the combination was just perfect. This time we knew exactly what to expect from each other. Lauren - the model - knew the poses Shi likes the most and also the poses complementing shapes and textures of the clothes. Kelly knew the make up requirements very well too. I used different colour background and lighting setup this time, but tried to keep same look for the brand. I think it is great to work with same people on a project, who are not only professional, but also very nice and comfortable to work with. Such a luck! Of course it doesn't happen every time, but this time I really enjoyed it.
Here are some image shots we did in the end of the day - and as a perfect finish of a shoot I always like - we had some fun with a scarf and unpredictable, unplanned shots.

Test beauty shoot2

Here is some selection of final images from the test beauty shoot I posted soem information before.