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Artist Statement:
My aim is to put down on paper
what I see and what I feel in
the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway
Someone once said that
creating a sculpture is easy:
just take a piece of marble
and cut away all the parts you
don’t want. I could say the
same about photography: take a
hundred shots, throw away the
ones you don’t want and crop
out the parts you don’t want
from the few shots that are
left. It sounds simple, and
anyone could do this, but not
everyone would get good
results. The key to success is
having artistic vision or
taste. That is what makes a
photographer able to choose
one subject over another and
select which shots to keep.
My vision is the result of
more than thirty years of
observing nature and great
works of art, reading and
thinking about art, painting,
as well as taking and
analyzing photographs.
My photographs are generally
unposed and unstaged and make
use of natural lighting. In
taking them I follow my
vision, my instincts – I go by
what feels right.
In image processing, on the
other hand, I am strictly
rational. I contemplate every
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Slava Deryuga Biography:
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| Your Personal Biography |
As a person I was shaped by two cultures: Russian and American.
I was born and raised in Ukraine, got my doctorate in physics from a top-tier Russian university and made a successful career in science before immigrating to the United States eleven years ago.
I used photography professionally throughout my two decade-long scientific career and had it as a serious hobby since childhood, so I mastered my photographic technique to perfection. I also have education in the art of painting, which shaped my taste and helped me develop that special vision that makes one an artist. The aesthetics of my work are primarily rooted in traditions and values of classical Russian art and great American photography.
When photography entered the digital era, tremendous improvements in technology and new means of artistic expression inspired me to devote more and more time to my long-time passion for nature photography. I traveled to remote and not-so-remote places that promised good shots, and one day the number of good pictures reached such a point that I could no longer keep them just for myself and my friends. In 2002, I reached out to the general public through my website. Though I do not advertise it, the site has become quite popular. People from around the globe compliment my pictures and quite a few of them express a desire to buy prints.
Finally, I have started selling limited edition prints through some New York City galleries. |
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