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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.

Secret Garden Party

Time of one's life. Four days of joy, fun and happiness at Secret Garden Party Festival.

Tarusa

Long time no news. It was a long way back to the UK. After 3 weeks spent here I still feel not quite like I'm actually back.

One of my last stops of my journey back was Tarusa - a small town 140 km south of Moscow, where my friend Alexandra stays in their family country house for summer. These were 2 days of calmness, fresh air, goat's milk and amazing atmosphere of pure rural Russia. Long walks, long nights in with my dear and her little son - I forgot about television, internet and all other goods of modern world. Tarusa is the place where time slows down, as it used to be when I was a child... 

Here's what I found in Wikipedia about the place Wikipedia

And some of the pictures are below. 

 

Love is all you need

My friends Alena and Dima, 18 April 2010, Ob sea. 

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...