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Alexander BezrukovPhoto © Alexander Bezrukov
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A broken doll
My future model came to Moscow for a Weekend few days after this talk, we shot half-a-dozen plots and she flew back to her northern town. 8 years passed since then, I took many well thought technically superior shots on much better equipment but I still think the few shots I took then are the most expressive of what I ever shot.
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This shot was absolutely spontaneous and unprepared. Once I have received a message on the Internet from an unknown to me girl telling that she loved the way I shoot and would like to pose me and even ready to come to Moscow, a city where I live, from a distant Northern region of Russia. I have had no slightest idea of her character and her world, a very wrong idea of her appearance from a low-quality photo, the only thing I knew is that she was playing in a local theatre. I need to tell that I receive such messages from time to time and usually politely dismiss them with confirmed and verified feeling that these messages come from people who have a lot of free time for chatting but are never ready to put a slightest effort to what they suggest. Also I need to think of a plot of future shots, which assumes some level of familiarity with the model and also time to do all the boring preparations -- find a location, the necessary accessories and so on. Neither of these factors were there, the whole affair from the very beginning looked crazy and doomed but strangely I felt that this time I had to make any effort to give it life.My future model came to Moscow for a Weekend few days after this talk, we shot half-a-dozen plots and she flew back to her northern town. 8 years passed since then, I took many well thought technically superior shots on much better equipment but I still think the few shots I took then are the most expressive of what I ever shot.
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