Galina Toktalieva - Diary of Female Photographer©

Mar

16

Memories-2

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It was nice sunny day - with expectation of happiness in the air. Antifascist demonstration started at Morzinplatz, at 15 o’clock. Small gallery presented here is only what I managed to process today. Unfortunately could not accomplish all. Perhaps as in every other activity professional future of photographer depends mostly on his industriousness and patience. [...]

Mar

13

Memories

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Mar

3

Street photography

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Why the bird sings? Maybe because of joy.
Street photography which depicts recognizable faces can survive only on pages of private blogs
Blogs which bring to author nothing except two-three duty comments and tons of spam
To go on like that photographer must be bird
Who sings because of pure joy and does not bother herself
about value and purpose [...]

Feb

27

Grenzlozes Erdbeerefeld

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As I already wrote before its always major part of life negativities unavoidable. Oddly enough all my depressing experiences concentrated in sphere of relations. It is like sado-maso games with your own gastronomic perceptiveness. When being invited to occasional restaurant I am hardly appreciative, though never complain, perceiving product freshness and also hygienic conditions it [...]

Feb

24

Journalism

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Serbian demonstration against Kosovo independence,
Vienna, Heldenplatz, 24.02.08, 13.00
As I have no more reliable source of information about Vienna events than FM-4 and Internet sites,
I arrived at place more than two hours earlier equipped with three lenses which I eventually didn’t use
When demo started, it was fun to shoot people together with other 4-5 male photographers
But [...]

Feb

13

What young photographer must know

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Normally people don’t like their own photos even of high quality. Portrait photography is the special art of flattery. Everybody has own vision of himself that can be broken by cruel frankness of digital camera vision. Image we perceive with our eyes is processed by multiple filters of our brain. People don’t like their own [...]

Dec

14

Kirgisin in Wien

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Photo of me was made by Graz photographer Reinhard Sock
500 Days of Street Photographer
Galina Toktalieva

Dec

3

Vienna, Vienna!

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When pink morning light transits to yellow luminosity of midday, and wind blowing from Schmelz stops bringing meditative tunes of kukus bird, I start my everyday journey.
Mirror in my small flat is the gateway. I step behind it and as invisible clot of energy roll outside. Together with gust of wind I move along [...]

Nov

25

Sale

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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 [...]

Nov

20

Schwarz und rot

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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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