What is your educational background and how did you begin your career as an artist?

My mother used to be an artist when I was a kid. And I spent lot of time at her studio where she and other artists were creating. I was interested in art from that early times. Later I studied economy, but worked as a graphics designer. I do not have art education, and doing art started as my hobby. In 2005 I bought my first camera and started to do retouched photography. But I do not limit myself to any media, I also do porcelain, sculptures and video.

Can you tell us more about your technique?

I had one friend with a pale face like in old paintings and I decided to take a shoot. She had no perfect skin and I wanted to retouch it like in a fashion magazine. When I started doing photography in 2005, I was not so good at Photoshop. I was searching the web for some tutorials and tried to retouch her face. But I couldn’t stop at the right moment and did too much retouch, so the skin looked unrealistic smooth and porcelain like. It was made by mistake, however the result was interesting and I developed this effect to my style.