It's been a very strange and long time switching to another creative wave this year for me. It's like I'm standing in one place and I can't fully engage in something mystical and spiritual. The street photo was fixed at an intermediate stage of switching.
Everything is pretty consistently good in street photography.
It makes good shots of everyday life.
But as soon as I go out at night, I can't see anything.
At the same time, the sensations are cosmic, but they are not supported by a picture.
As a rule, this does not take long and the moment of reboot will come very soon.
I judge this by how quickly I can get bored with street photography.
Every time I connect to the street, I am inspired by every corner of the city, every shadow, every movement.
And after a few walks, I get so full that I want to escape from the city, away from crowded places.
This year, it's a strange state: I already want to go to remote places to dugouts, but the city doesn't seem to let me go.
Apparently, I have not yet fully fulfilled my promise to capture the summer to the maximum.
And I have to be responsible for words...in front of the universe. Well, I'm photographing summer.
But you can combine that, and I've always been good at it.
But now it's not working...I have to film the daily hot summer life of Vologda.
If I have to, it means I force myself to go out into the heat, I force myself to leave the air–conditioned comfort zone.
But this does not mean that I am going against my soul – there is a desire to make pictures!
There is no desire to experience how the withering rays of the sun burn through the brain...
Yes, the weather forecasters were right: it was a very hot summer, especially in July.
And so, going back to the connections...Usually, if I leave the reportage and the street for the night mysticism, then I don't want to photograph the city at all.
I remember how at the end of 2023 I got so lost in this state that I even forgot what some places looked like and walked around them as if I hadn't been in the city for many years.
I had to get used to urban life all over again, but on the one hand it's good – it refreshes the look at the street.
So far, I have never had such a thing that I have gone to the cosmic extreme so much.
Last year was characterized by a stable balance between all states and genres, respectively.
And sometimes you want to go to the extreme...The feeling is incredible...but it's hard to get out of it later. I would to figure out how to achieve a controlled extreme!