Hello everybody,
It was nice to discover this website.
My name is Oleg Moskvin and I've started to shoot B&W film at the age 10, back in Russia. The mystery of appearing of the Image on a silver photopaper was so exciting for me... I rememeber spending nights in front of an enlarger, experimenting not only with B&W but with primitive and time-consuming color printing (it was a low-temperature process and every run used to take ~30min, so if you are lucky to correct the color in 5 attempts, that was 2 and half hours for color correction only, not to mention the use of kitchen dishes instead of developing trays)... And this 10-years-old kid had fun with that!
Photography promoted my interest to chemistry, and I tried about 30 recipies of B&W film developers, describing results from every of them in almost "poetic manner". BTW, my top 2 choices after those tests were Rodinal and lesser-known 2-step developer (which can give you top results but its performance is unstable; this is a separate story anyway).
Interest to chemistry transformed later to interest in chemistry of complex biological objects, and this became my professon: I do scientific research in biochemistry / molecular biology areas.
Science demands all your time, so my photography activity decreased, and my several moves around the globe (Russia - Sweden - USA) following new research projects and corresponding "gypsy lifestyle" did now allow me to have a darkroom. So, I slowly drifted to using the services of minilabs, to loosing the whole control over the printing etc., etc. Going "semi-digital" (shooting film, scanning it and printing with inkjet myself) has returned a part of the former satisfaction.
Recently I decided to go for "medium format plus digital" combination and tested several digital cameras... Eventually, I've sold all of them, and purchased Minolta Multi Pro scanner and Contax G2 + Biogon 21mm instead... As a medium format system, I have Pentax 67II which I love. I feel myself returning to my old passion now.
In 1999, I've started a (stricktly non-commercial) web project where I exhibited some my photography works and mostly works of other people (in photography, painting and graphics media) which were interesting for me (as a "gallery owner", in this case). This was quite successful project for that time but then I experienced a shortage of time to develop it further, so it basically stays outdated - http://photophilia.net However, I hope to revive it soon.
Some of my current photographs I post to a russian photography site - http://sheremey.photosight.ru - it's quite an eclectic mixture. As to publications/exhibitions, it was long time ago in Russia, and now I am starting this again. My first photography publication in the US was in "The Distillery" art journal.
My current location is Laramie, WY (yes, people deal with latest biological research technologies there, in the University of Wyoming, believe it or not!)
Hope this reading was more or less fun for you
Nice to meet all of you guys here.
Oleg
It was nice to discover this website.
My name is Oleg Moskvin and I've started to shoot B&W film at the age 10, back in Russia. The mystery of appearing of the Image on a silver photopaper was so exciting for me... I rememeber spending nights in front of an enlarger, experimenting not only with B&W but with primitive and time-consuming color printing (it was a low-temperature process and every run used to take ~30min, so if you are lucky to correct the color in 5 attempts, that was 2 and half hours for color correction only, not to mention the use of kitchen dishes instead of developing trays)... And this 10-years-old kid had fun with that!
Photography promoted my interest to chemistry, and I tried about 30 recipies of B&W film developers, describing results from every of them in almost "poetic manner". BTW, my top 2 choices after those tests were Rodinal and lesser-known 2-step developer (which can give you top results but its performance is unstable; this is a separate story anyway).
Interest to chemistry transformed later to interest in chemistry of complex biological objects, and this became my professon: I do scientific research in biochemistry / molecular biology areas.
Science demands all your time, so my photography activity decreased, and my several moves around the globe (Russia - Sweden - USA) following new research projects and corresponding "gypsy lifestyle" did now allow me to have a darkroom. So, I slowly drifted to using the services of minilabs, to loosing the whole control over the printing etc., etc. Going "semi-digital" (shooting film, scanning it and printing with inkjet myself) has returned a part of the former satisfaction.
Recently I decided to go for "medium format plus digital" combination and tested several digital cameras... Eventually, I've sold all of them, and purchased Minolta Multi Pro scanner and Contax G2 + Biogon 21mm instead... As a medium format system, I have Pentax 67II which I love. I feel myself returning to my old passion now.
In 1999, I've started a (stricktly non-commercial) web project where I exhibited some my photography works and mostly works of other people (in photography, painting and graphics media) which were interesting for me (as a "gallery owner", in this case). This was quite successful project for that time but then I experienced a shortage of time to develop it further, so it basically stays outdated - http://photophilia.net However, I hope to revive it soon.
Some of my current photographs I post to a russian photography site - http://sheremey.photosight.ru - it's quite an eclectic mixture. As to publications/exhibitions, it was long time ago in Russia, and now I am starting this again. My first photography publication in the US was in "The Distillery" art journal.
My current location is Laramie, WY (yes, people deal with latest biological research technologies there, in the University of Wyoming, believe it or not!)
Hope this reading was more or less fun for you
Nice to meet all of you guys here.
Oleg
