Friday, July 18, 2008

Hi, meet Dima...

Hi everyone, welcome to my first blog, yes, I do have life outside of my office, or maybe I'm just older... M name is Dima, short from Dmitrij and I'm Russian. Yes, I'm Russian, but I was born in USSR and then found myself living in independet country Latvia without changing my address. For last 6 years I live in America, 4 in New York City, well Brooklyn. So, most of the time I feel that I'm gipsy, or more glamorous word would be Citizen of the world...Ba-Bah!!! 
I'm photographer, love light, love shadows, shooting portraits and fashion, suck at landscapes! You can visit my web site at www.dimaphotography.com Like any lucky human being I had a chance to leave couple of lives already, being photographer is recent one. I like it, have ups and downs, but it's like sex, some times you have amazing one and feels so good just to think about last night and some times you have eee-soso one and you just don't think about it. 
Not single. Straight. Democrat. Obama. No religious, but I like Buddhism. Just recently went to see His Holiness Dalai Lama-life changing experience. You should try it, like ASAP. 
Love to read, so far Road is the shit! It's like watching movie!
Indie rock rocks, folk music folks! 
In photography I had my Penn period, Avedon, Seliger, Klein, Meisel, Sims, Roversy, Kander, Riedel, Ogden, Maxwell, Annie, right now I'm tabula rasa-hit me! I like good fashion photography, it's like good movie, you would think about it for a while, bad fashion is like frat boys comedy-want to throw up. Portraiture is different game. I was very disappointed after meeting some editors and showing my book. I know that I'm good, but American magazines don't need good, they need safe, they need money. Time magazine was my biggest disappointment, well, I sad thank you very much , fuck you and come back later. Fashion gives you more creative freedom, but it's different game... I'll tell you later.
Anyway, that's 5 min of Dima, I exist, I believe, I hope and I love.