by Galina Toktalieva As quick portraiture photographer and sporadic photo model I have never met someone really joyful about her own portraits, including myself. Moreover, certain persons, who at first enthusiastically pose, give signs of bitter disappointment with their pictures afterwards. Similarly to me – when I posture for my colleagues, – my improvised models [...]
by Galina Toktalieva Annie Leibovitz is as famous portrait photographer, but now her genius is close to financial ruin, and she is considered to be a victim of her own obsessive artistic ambition. Among the qualities making Leibovitz, 59, the most distinguished portrait photographer in the world is her legendary perfectionism. Lloyd Ziff, a former [...]
Kallypso, my dear self, you know that usually I start my everyday street hunt with great enthusiasm. But gradually becoming tired, struggling forward and finding nothing interesting to shoot, frozen, hungry, I feel misery. Shoulder with camera bag aches. It is not so easy to find original face in the street at all. After so [...]