Galina Toktalieva - Diary of Female Photographer©

Apr

23

Ideal lover

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Contemplating over my own intimate relationships and those of others I conclude that ideal lover for me could be only duplicate of me. Imagine, you meet somebody with equal sensitivity and quickness, equally changeable and bizarre; you have endless topics for conversation, eternal understanding and adore.
You feel hands wise as your own - caressing your [...]

Feb

16

Mutti

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Saturday visit
It was cold windy morning. I made snapshot of this group near Westbahnhof
May be I idealize family relationships being deprived of them
You love man so much that it hurts and when he betrays you-
you want to die
But time goes on, and soon you can not recollect his name.
When I ask men what do they [...]

Feb

10

Liebe

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Jan

28

Licht

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This is fast portrait of a young worker, which I make in Karlsplatz
Light is best artist, it creates something impressive and bright without slightest effort.
The lack of light makes everything dull and flat, and a few hours of work over such photos
hardly improve anything. It is like relationship. When relationship is dull from the very [...]

Jan

13

Samstag

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The thought of the day: my human relationships are imperfect and always will be so; imperfections cause sufferings, and sufferings reconciliate me with the absence of all and any relationships, with nothingness. We are mortally afraid and at the same time unconsciously strive for perfection of unknown which will never come in cramped space of [...]

Nov

15

Thorns

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I attained normal Soviet school, where among other exotic subjects
we studied scientific atheism.
In classroom with portrait of Mongolian looking Leader and quotation: Religion is opium for folks-
teacher talked about Darwinism and astrophysics mocking over
tales of holy world creation.
We were busy with history of Christianity, and there was Moslem country outside - with neither veil, nor [...]

Nov

14

Cold Vienna

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It was so cold in Vienna, I never expected it may be so. I felt lonely and isolated, I knew almost nobody in the city, and was not sure, what every new day would bring me.
Sometimes I wonder, what is the engine that always moves me forward?
And what love is? Why I so often feel [...]

Nov

10

Lolita

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Coming back home in twilight,
I see street prostitutes in Hütteldorferstrasse during their evening shift.
Girls have extremely minimized professional outfit standing there almost nude in cold rain.
Some of them are very young.
Trying to catch glimpse of their faces in quickly growing darkness
I try to imagine what they feel.
I also see men who occasionally stop there in [...]

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