Еxcerpts from conversation with David Dector: How did I get to be a photographer? In the winter of ’93 I was in Moscow, there I bought a Zenith camera for about twelve dollars. Then I went to the Yamal peninsula (Siberia) with Zenith and three rolls of film. I’ve been praised; otherwise I’d have probably taken up something else. And so I fell for it… Anyway, I began taking pictures rather late, at the age of 32. Before that, I believed that to occupy oneself with photography was “sinful”, for at the moment of truth one was busy with the camera, fussing with the frame instead of living the moment. That’s why I went traveling – I did travel a lot – without any photo equipment. So.  And yet nowadays I travel with a camera and in that I also find some wonderful values. I also worked for four years as a night tutor at a children’s home. There I took pictures all the time. That, of course, was very serious, a very strong series. There was just one defect in it: it could not be published. I would have to get permission from all those youngsters and so on. We are allowed to take pictures of children but not to publish them. That was probably my first conscious project. read more>

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