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I was born in 1946, the first year after World War II. My parents managed to survive the hardships of evacuation and returned back home to Riga, then under Soviet occupation.

I grew up amongst the Russian speaking population of Latvia. Russian culture became my root culture. I graduated from the technical college as an aviation engineer but never worked as such. Instead, I joined Riga Motion Studios as a designer of equipment for special effects. I was in my early twenties and mostly ignorant about art. At this time social realism was the official culture of the country and I did not care about it too much. Information about modern western art was hardly available and my knowledge of it was highly limited.

I started to photograph when I was nineteen, driven by desire to create my own personal style and vision. I was involved in portraiture and created some documentary shots, but soon realized the results did not satisfy me. I put my camera aside and concen Biography of arthur conan doyle.