June 2, 2008 - 11:00 am - Posted by Galina
I had not posted for my blog for a long time. It was emotional zigzag.
Zigzags appear in my life as result of failures or psychological traumas, when shift of perception makes me look at my life from another perspective.
Contemplating my professional future, I see my aspirations are mostly inapplicable in Austria. My prospects would be [...]
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March 5, 2008 - 10:15 pm - Posted by Galina
Emigration creates stressful limit-situations when person loses his identification:
work, friends, relatives, property, language, life and career prospects
Can you stand this collapse of identifications?
- Being 47, I must run around in Vienna as homeless dog looking for institutions
who would approve what I am doing
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November 25, 2007 - 7:57 pm - Posted by Galina
If you start doing anything seriously, soon you will realize that problems of any contemporary occupation arise mostly at promotion level.
If you cannot market yourself, you can do nothing. In such arts, as cinematography and photography, the more gifted you are the less chances you have to maneuver smoothly
through troublesome process of advertising.
Artistic talent is [...]
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November 20, 2007 - 9:24 pm - Posted by Galina
Bang at the door came after midnight. Since it was bars area, I reached for rolling pin and
then shut open the door.
Russian woman Natasha stood there together with her husband - short man with disproportional big hands. Natasha looked as child who broke vase playing football in living room and tried to postpone inexorable penalty [...]
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October 30, 2007 - 1:31 pm - Posted by Galina
Great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote that our happiness is usually erected at pedestal of other people misfortune.
Mechanism of reality is so that we can feel good only on expense of somebody else. In ethical sphere it is expressed in emotional vampiring of humans, in social and economic sphere it lays in basement of labor [...]
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October 25, 2007 - 10:38 pm - Posted by Galina
The moment when airplane takes off and lands is fascinating. There I was again - in the big belly of steel bird landing this time in Stockholm airport.
High speed, vibration and awareness of certain risk- make perception especially sharp.
In proximity of a few seconds you evaluate all your life.
I was invited to Sweden by [...]
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September 21, 2007 - 5:56 pm - Posted by Galina
How I came to photography? And why I came so late?
Probably if I didn’t move to Austria from Moscow six years ago, I would never start photograph seriously. Of course, I always had affinities for visual arts, and being a child drew and painted a lot, and also liked geometry, being at the top of [...]
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September 18, 2007 - 11:55 pm - Posted by Galina
I miss Graz, where I had spent more than five years of my - hard and unforgettable life. I miss Graz beggars. It is difficult to count how many beggary-marginality-homeless-alcoholics shots I made there. Thanks to Styria and its inhabitants, I opened totally new world for myself. But…There were also many incidents with chauvinistic [...]
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