Hello!
My name is Anastasia, I am 25 years old. I am a civil engineer by education:) Yes, not a real creative profession) I will tell you right away that I have never worked a day in my life and after receiving my graduation certificate I immediately went to learn the art of a photography.
Since I was a child I loved art very much and was fascinated by photography. As now I remember how I flew on vacation with my mother (I was 8 years old at that time) and I photographed her on an old film soap camera and showed her how to pose))). My parents couldn’t afford to buy me a camera, so at 13 I saved up for it myself: I starved and saved all the money I was given for school lunches and breakfasts (hello spoiled stomach: D). And how happy I was when I finally bought my first camera. I took pictures of everything around me and even participated in city photography contests.
While still an engineering student, I started working part-time shooting content for social networks of various stores and brands in Vladivostok. Then, when I went on exchange to Japan (Tokyo) for a year, I gave myself to art more consciously, fully and with whole heart. I shot people from absolutely different parts of the world. Working and communicating with people, showing their beauty and the beauty around them, seeing the smile on their face and the joy from the emotions and memories, I was once again convinced that this is my true mission and that photography and working with people is exactly what I have been working towards all my life and what I wanted to do.
Interest
I like people very much, I like to get to know them, to communicate and to discover their real facets and their potential. I have always been interested in this, so I started studying psychology at school and reading books on these topics. I believe that any good photographer working with people should also be a good psychologist who can relax people, make them feel at ease, support them and reveal their real soul and show it through the photo.
I think that my interest in people and empathy helps me a lot in my work, that’s why my clients are always satisfied after the shoot and always come back to me).
I also love traveling, learning about the culture of different countries and people of different nationalities, their peculiarities and temperament. I always watch interviews of different people with great interest in my free time, seeing different moments and studying people’s temperaments. I love to read, and also since childhood I have been practicing dancing — this is how I express myself and my emotions through music and movements.
Geography of work
At the moment I live in the wonderful city of Vladivostok and mostly work there. But, when I fly to other cities, I always find time for shoots and shoot everyone. All current dates and cities are displayed on the main page of my website. If you have an interesting project or idea and you want to invite me to your city, you can write to me and we will discuss it for sure:)
If you have any questions for me, you can always email me and I will be happy to answer anything you are interested in. Don’t hesitate to write to me — as I said, I love people and I’m always happy to communicate, get to know you and help you:)
