Oleg Tarasov

Rosja – Russia

Togliatti

I was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia in 1962. After studying electronics and working as radio-engineer,
i studied at Krasnoyarsk school of photography in 2003 - 2004. My first personal exhibition was in 2003, and my first pinhole exhibition was in 2006.

My path to pinhole has been long.

I shot hundreds of rolls of film and made thousands of digital exposures.
I did what thousands of other photographers have done.
But that's not what I wanted. So I came to pinhole.
Pinhole is a my way to show the true condition of the natural world, unsteady and uncertain, illusory and ephemeral. Just as when we are immersed in a stream, we do not notice the individual drops of water - we feel „water”. Over time, we do begin to notice distinct currents in the larger stream.
My pinhole photography is an attempt to communicate the entirety of surroundings - not as separate parts, but as a flowing wholeness.

Serie: „Walking by the Russian province”