Galina Toktalieva - Diary of Female Photographer©

Oct

30

Imitations

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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 [...]

Oct

10

Libido

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Modeling ads always bring rich post, and usually after some selection you stay with nothing. All corresponding photographers turn out to be only next seekers of strawberry, dozens of them appear and disappear in life of models as foam.
The saddest thing is they look not only for strawberry- satisfaction of their own libido- but also [...]

Oct

8

Mustard

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I was taking a nap on small broken bed of mine in Mehlplatz-1 garret after sleepless night and was galvanized by crashing noise of bottle collector in the yard.
Graz was one of the cutest towns I ever lived in, but to be positioned in old center of it under the roof with unbearable heat in [...]

Sep

29

Nude models

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Today I forced my way through overcrowded Neubaugasse, where autumn flea market took place. For a while I was standing by kiosks with Lagos � fried crumpets with garlic, inhibited by the struggle of motives and feeling overflow of saliva in my mouth.
I heard from older generation that during Second World War at market places [...]

Sep

23

Men

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I anticipated how I would visit regular monthly meeting of local Fotocommunity, because it could be novelty since my 2-month stay in Vienna. To meet those engaged as me in photography - that is great! And as usual expectations and reality didn’t match and left me in state of bewilderment and frustration. Looking around in [...]

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