Formic history Andrey Pavlov

Formic history Andrey Pavlov

Categories: Microworld | Photo project

Vasil Khlebosolov writes: "frankly, when I first saw macro photos from the series "Ant tales", "Ant theatre" skits, where insects posed and clearly performed "reasonable" action, I had different ideas about how still the author managed to implement such tricks. Thoughts were from the sacrilegious — and I'm not even going now to clarify some banal three-dimensional visualization. The reality was much more incredible: it's all real, albeit staged photography with live models!

I contacted the author of the photos, and we agreed on an interview. When the conversation took place, in response to the dry blank questions fotobienale I received an amazing and heartfelt story of a man with an interesting and difficult destiny. The hero of the publication asked us to call him Andrew (on the Internet — Antrey). Born in Moscow, in Leningrad, graduated from the Arctic faculty "Makarovka", further expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic with occasional returns to his wife and daughter in his native St. Petersburg. In the expeditions he first took up photography, simply because I wanted to capture the majestic nature.

Once Andrew received severe trauma and subsequently became seriously ill, being paralyzed, but with a giant power of will, in a few years, again stood on his feet and managed to find the meaning of life through macro photography. Now he's perfectly happy with his work from the series "Ant story" is known in the whole world!"

Formic history Andrey Pavlov

And then all my words are platitudes, and you will find exciting, filled to the brim with love for life and optimism the relationship between the human and nature with the real fairy tales on pictures.

Formic history Andrey PavlovBackstage.

— Can you myself to say that "born" with a camera? And anyway, how come in the picture?— Occasionally shot always, do not leave the camera for the last seven years.

— Are there any Hobbies that are not related to photography?— A music lover, I like good music in any genre.

Run along, kid.

— What inspires the creation of works?— Probably, in the childhood tales nedochital, is now trying to take them off.

— In addition to macro, is there any other favourite genres?— My work rarely are macro (in the classic 1:1 scale), I take stories about low folk, and there is a place and the portrait, and landscape.

The great wall and its heroes.

— Looking at your photos, I never cease to be amazed by your patience and perseverance. Do you really possess such qualities?— The sign of Taurus requires

Keywords: Interview | Moscow | Ants | Insects | Photographer | Photography

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