Business & Career

Dear fellow photographers, It has come to my attention that some privately owned cosmetics companies are collecting images from their creators and asking to sign questionable papers that allow [...]

I didn’t intentionally choose to become a Beauty Photographer, I think I was always meant to be one. But right out of high school I took a more realistic path and got myself into Finance [...]

In the first half of this blog post I share some of the happenings in my photography life from last week, if you want to skip that for Stephen King’s advice scroll down to the STEPHEN [...]

Yesterday was a very strange day. It began with a sad news that my mom shared with me – a very close relative, her godmother, passed away back home in Russia. It completely disabled me, I [...]

It’s Friday, so instead of boring you with serious conversations or tutorials, I want to share something inspiring. Last week as I was driving home after a photo shoot and listening to the [...]

I’m going to make this post relatively short. Its purpose is not to rant, but actually the opposite: I want to share with you how changing my attitude towards negativity on social media, [...]

Being professional photographers in our day and age, means that we must look into learning to create moving images to future-proof our careers. And the sooner you can add that skill to your [...]

WHY The last couple of years were great and very busy for me. I founded Retouching Academy, Retouched Magazine, wrote for Fstoppers, taught at CreativeLive, and met so many great people around [...]

When I bought my first camera and started taking pictures, I did not know it was going to get serious for me. I also didn’t know what I wanted to shoot, I just knew I was hooked and wanted [...]