Kirill Arsenjev
First Kodak camera he bought when he was 12, since then he tried lots of brands and lenses, but remained faithful to the film.
1 May 2010 года
Kirill Arsenjev — young photographer who is quiet, sensitive, lean. He speaks softly, lives in St.Petersburg, which largely explains his humble nature, his monochrome photos... The first Kodak camera he bought when he was 12, since then he tried lots of brands and lenses, but remained faithful to the film. He made pictures 8x10", and 4x5" when he had lack of money.
Once, I felt his wonderful zeal for expensive films, a huge antique photographic apparatus. Couple years later I\'ve realized that over time he found his unique style: blurred, soft, somewhat intimate. His pictures are full of calmness, looks frozen on his portraits magnify. You already know those peeling walls, old wallpapers, you know these people, these streets, but at the same time, you think they\'d filmed somewhere in Sweden, Britain...
— Not, that I can\'t live without capturing beautiful things, people, but I want to save this beauty, may be, for centuries. Very often it happens that I see it but do not know how to shoot so as to deliver it. Lately I simply do not take pictures of these things no more since I\'ve certainly tried before but got «premature moments». Perhaps it will come a little later.
In his urge I see Arsenyev\'s great potential. He goes smooth and even to his goal: he worked for Esquire, Vogue, ID, Zing... «Modest» ambitions, modest young man.
