ntazbash Tazbash

I make snapshots on film (mostly black and white, but sometimes color) on a large-format camera - it's a big instrument with bellows on a tripod, like in an old photostudio. The size of the negative is 10 by 12 cm. For various projects I use other film cameras with different formats and lenses: Hasselblad SWC, olympus om1, fuji CW690. I print in the classic method of manual photo printing with the help of Valery Samarin, the best printer of Moscow, a famous Russian photographer and student of the legendary photographer Alexander Lapin. I involve various high-level specialists for my projects. In particular, I constantly work with one of the star visagistes of Moscow Vera Baratova. Creating a photo for me is a very intimate, almost sacred process. Working with public figures, who use various artistic and social masks in life, I try to remove this barrier and open through the classic portrait the deep psychological and emotional structure of their personality. As a result, the most intense and vivid images are obtained: the model is revealed, receiving radically different sensations from the shooting process..