One of the best ever Internet inventions, for me at least, has to be StumbleUpon. Recently whilst using StumbleUpon, I have become aware of an increasing number of Russian photographers and photographic sites. Unfortunately, much of the content of the sites is fairly inaccessible to me (I don’t read Russian), but a lot of the images are monochrome which is of particular interest to me.
Today I found myself browsing the site of Michael Tarasov. I have never heard of him before and I don’t know whether he is professional or enthusiast, whether he is well known or virtually undiscovered. His website asserts copyright for 2006, so he would appear to have been around for a while, but whether he is still active, I couldn’t say. His site provides little information, other than it being the “official website of the Russian beauty photographer, Michael Tarasov”.
Anyway, have a look at some of Michael’s photographs and see what you think. Personally, I love it. If you know or find out anything about him please let me know.
Smashing stuff! I particularly like the ‘smoothness’ of some of the photos. I don’t really know how better to describe it, but I really like it.
Did a quick search in Google and came up with some more:
http://www.portrait-photos.org/photographer/mitar
Here are 2 links with more photos from the same author:
http://club.foto.ru/gallery/photos/author.php?author_id=17395#listStart
http://www.photosight.ru/users/5519/
Check the galleries from both sites and you’ll find many great photos.
You can review the most recent work of him, here
http://www.photosight.ru/users/5519/