Video: Magic from improvised means: photographs by Katerina Plotnikova
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Katerina Plotnikova believes that only a fiery desire is needed to create a good photo. All the props can be found literally on the street, and models are among the most ordinary people.
Katerina was born in 1987 and currently lives in Moscow. Her passion for photography dates back to 2008. However, hobby is not the right word. In Katerina's own words, photography is her life. She devotes all her time, all her strength and thoughts to her beloved work.
According to Katherine, the success of photography does not depend on the size of the budget, the professionalism of the model or the high cost of equipment. She attracts the most ordinary girls to her work, and the props are often things found on the way to the shooting location. There is no need to talk about the team of makeup artists, costume designers, lighting, pyrotechnics and directors - for the most part, their functions Katerina Plotnikova performs itself.
She uses graphic editors only for color correction. If the viewer sees in the picture a chair nailed to a tree, then this is not a result of digital processing, but a real fact that took place on the set. All the most incredible ideas of Katerina are born and realized only thanks to the process of her co-creation with the model. Working on a piece of art makes the girls fearless in front of tall trees and swamps.
Katerina fundamentally does not engage in commercial photography. Only girls who fit the following parameters can become heroines of her pictures: big eyes, a childish face and painful thinness. But, in her opinion, everyone can make their own little masterpieces of photography, which she hopes to inspire her viewer.
There are still many talented photographers to be found in Russia. Among them, it is worth noting the already known to readers Kulturologia Anton Yankovsky.
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