“Return to the Roots”
“Return to the Roots”, this could be the title for this small series of works shot more than 10 years ago. Then these works did not form a single row.
Author: Viacheslav Kabanov
These are a few words about me. I was born in Moscow in 1981. After the routine of army service and the forced pause in my life had helped me to understand myself and to decide in life, I entered the Moscow University of Culture and Arts, the studio of Yuri Babich. Before that I’d graduated from the Moscow Institute of electronics and mathematics, and at that time I seriously thought of doing engineering. At the University of Culture and Arts under the guidance of an experienced master I made the first drafts. Currently I’m engaged in the creation of photographic projects, studying the history of photography, photographic plastique; I investigate the possibility of integrating photos into different types of art. For me photography is a language I feel comfortable to speak about what I am concerned, what I am interested in.
About composition
Photographic vision, what is it? The ability to think within the framework of a photographic language, how is it? I believe that people involved in photography in one way or another have at least once held in their hands a book, a manual or a textbook on photography. …
Thinking about Photography
Where is that fine line separating reality from unreality? What is reality, how is it determined? Sometimes, when we dream, we are convinced to the last that everything that happens to us on the other side of the edge is real, and even when we wake up, we have a feeling for a long time that maybe it was all real! …
Melancholia
Melancholia is the state of soul caused by having an opportunity to choose your own way. The choice appears or is given from above for experience and self-cultivation, for coming up to a new stage in intellectual and mental development. The choice can be treated as great blessing, but at the same time, as great responsibility and a burden. …