Born in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), Russia


EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

Linguistic grammar school graduation

Course "Learn Photography" in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Course "Photography through Experiment" in Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Internship as photo assistant by "AZZATO PHOTO DESIGN" in Frankfurt/Main, Germany

BEST-Sabel-College for Design in Berlin, Germany; state recognized diploma'd photo designer
(defence with an excellent mark)

Internship as photo assistant by "SO! Fotodesign" in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Internship as photographer by "Három Holló" magazine in Budapest, Hungary
Internship as photographer and photo editor by "Panoma" in Berlin, Germany


AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarship from BEST-Sabel Ltd.
I prize in the photo competition "Asphalt Culture. Berlin between Ecological Catastrophe
and Urban Paradise"
Scholarship from BEST-Sabel Ltd.
Scholarship from BEST-Sabel Ltd.
II place in the photo competition "Wissen-Schafft-Bilder", in the categorie "Mikroworlds".
In cooperation with Photokina 2006
III place in the international Fashion Photography Competition, in the Art Category.
At the 5th Moscow International Fashion and Art Week "Fashion Assembly"


PROJECTS

Lapland, Kola Peninsula, Russia: Murmansk - Olenegorsk - Revda - Lovozero - Monchegorsk - Apatity - Kirovsk - Kola - Pechenga (Border Security Zone) - Nikel (Border Security Zone) - Zapolyarny (Border Security Zone, Kola Superdeep Borehole) - Teriberka (Border Security Zone, Barents Sea) [extreme northwest part of Russia] - Belomorsk - Novaya Zalavruga (Petroglyphs) - Kivach (one of the highest plain waterfalls in Europe, Karelia) - Petrozavodsk (Karelia) - Lodeynoe Pole - Syasstroy - Staraya Ladoga - Volhov - Podberezye - Veliky Novgorod - Kresttsy - Pereezd - Kuzhenkino - Vyshny Volochyok - Tver - Novomelkovo - Moscow - Stupino - Ozyory - Lipetsk - Zadonsk - Voronezh - Tambov - Volgograd -
Svetliy Yar - Tsagan Aman (Kalmykia) - near Enotaewka - Astrakhan - Stanya - Elista (Kalmykia)
More than half of the trip by hitchhiking
Lapland, Kola Peninsula (extreme northwest part of Russia): Murmansk - Kola - Zapolyarny
(Border Security Zone, Kola Superdeep Borehole) - Lovozero - Ura-Guba (Border Security Zone) - Drovyanoy - Loparskaya - Glory Valley (Death Valley) - Kirkenes (Norway)
Cuba: Havana - Santa Clara - Trinidad - Camagüey - Guantánamo - Baracoa - Santiago de Cuba -
Jagüey Grande - Viñales - Pinar del Río
Russia: Kaliningrad - Baltiysk (a major naval base of the Russian Navy) - Curonian Spit
Uzbekistan - Karakalpakistan: Tashkent - Samarkand - Ik - Nukus - Muynak
(Aral See environmental disaster zone)


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Exhibition during the presentations of the books "Johann Jährig" and
"Johann Jährig und seine Zeit. Ein Büdinger forscht bei den Mongolen", Heuson-Museum in Old Town hall, Büdingen, Germany
Photo visualization during the presentation of the book "Johann Jährig", Frankfurt Book Fair,
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
German-Russian Museum (Place of Capitulation)
"Ich habe das gesehen" photo book presentation, reading and cabinet exhibition, as a part of the vent  "Memory of  Peace" devoted to the 63rd Anniversary of the end of the World War II, Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany
"Zeilgalerie", Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Café Gallery "Eckermann", Budapest, Hungary
Photoexhibition at "leonid matthias" fashion show, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Hindenburg Hall, Olympic Village 1936, Elstal, Germany
Café Gallery "Eckermann" Budapest, Hungary
Café Gallery "Csiga", Budapest, Hungary
Kyrgyzstan Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Chorin Monastery, Chorin, Germany
"Old Slaughterhouse", Dresden, Germany
Street Feast, Bad Vilbel, Germany
Jewish Community, Fulda, Germany
"Café 2001", Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Guest House "Pudelkönig", Frankfurt/Main, Germany
"House of Motherland", Frankfurt/Main, Germany
"Café 2001", Frankfurt/Main, Germany
"House of Motherland", Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Street Feast, Bad Vilbel, Germany
"Wohnparadies", Dortelweil, Germany


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

3d Exhibition of Modern Art, Kultur-Station-9, Bernsdorf/Zeißholz
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
(Studio programme and project platform for artistic und curatorial projects)
"Exhibition of National Economy Achievements"
5th Moscow International Fashion and Art Week "Fashion Assembly", Moscow, Russia
"Wissen-Schafft-Bilder", Photo competiton visualization, Photokina 2006, Cologne, Germany
"INTERprojekte", Berlin, Germany
Photo Gallery "Friedrichshain", Berlin, Germany
"C/O Berlin" (The Cultural Forum for Photography), Berlin, Germany
In cooperation with the 56th Berlinale
Old Transformer Station, Berlin, Germany
BEST-Sabel-College for Design, Berlin, Germany
Art Gallery "St. Petersburg", Stuttgart, Germany
"Foundation of Nature Conservation", Berlin, Germany
"Forum Köpenick", Berlin, Germany
travelling exhibition in Baja (Hungary), Vienna (Austria), Berlin (Germany)
"IKEA", Berlin-Waltersdorf, Germany
BEST-Sabel-College for Design, Berlin, Germany
Feast in Bad Nauheim's Resort Park, Bad Nauheim,Germany

PUBLICATIONS

"H-Ha" Catalogue (Germany)
"Ich habe das gesehen" Photobook (Hungary)
"Samarkand 2750 Years" Book (Germany)
"Publik-Forum" #12 (Germany)
"Berliner Journalisten" #8 (Germany)
"Pester Lloyd" #45 (Hungary)
"Status Quo" Catalogue (Germany)
"East End" Postcard (Germany)
"Pester Lloyd" #14 (Hungary)
"Három Holló" #7 (Hungary)
"GfF aktuell" #15 (Germany)
"IKEA Room Magazin" #04 (Germany)
"Treffpunkt" #11 (Germany)
"Made in Germany" Catalogue (Germany)
"Unsere Stimme" #36 (Germany)
"M COLLECTION" International Fashion Magazine #20 (Germany)
"Cat Work"-Eventbook #5 (Germany)
"Unsere Stimme" #34 (Germany)


PRESS RELEASE

"Gelnhäuser Tageblatt" #242 (Germany)
"Kreis-Anzeiger für Wetterau und Vogelsberg" (Germany)
"Kreis-Anzeiger für Wetterau und Vogelsberg" #246 (Germany)
"Screen Offside at the Berlinale 2006" #5 (Germany)
"Budapester Zeitung" #45 (Hungary)
"Pester Lloyd" #35-36 (Hungary)
"Unsere Stimme" #35 (Germany)
"Wetterauer Zeitung" #112 (Germany)