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I am completely a self-taught photographer. I am learning every day: new photographic skills, creative vision of the frame, and different attitude to life. I think that looking at the world through the viewfinder reveals all even the smallest details I would not have noticed otherwise. When I have my camera with me, I look closer, and I stop perceiving things surrounding me as given: houses, grass, a cup full of steaming green tea. I am looking for stories and they reveal themselves both in everyday objects and in cities and places unfamiliar, during my travels.

I am Ukrainian, life brought me to Norway for a few years. Germany is the third country I am living in for a long period in my life together with my husband, who is Italian. I suspect that it is a swirl of cultures constantly rolling and unfolding around me that brought me about taking on photography. Italian way of drinking quick espresso, Ukrainian way of drinking tea, ripened with future wine grapes of Toscana, dramatic landscapes of Norway.