About one of my hobbies I and photography One of my favorite hobbies is photography. Words ‘photography’ consist of two Greek words: ‘photos’ – what means ‘light’ and ‘graphos’ – it means ‘to write’. Photography allows us to make plane image of pieces of natural world. The first photographic image in the world was obtained by French scientist Nisephore Niepsce in 1822. It was view from the window in your room. Exposure was very long. Photosensitive material was exposed for all day. Some years late, in 1839, French artist Luis Dager got image on a copper plate coated with silver. He opened portrait studio and made many same images, which were named daguerreotypes. Approximately, at this time British John Talbot researcher has invented a method for producing images using positive and negative. This method with some changes and improvement existed more than 150 years until the appearance of digital photography. I started to engage photography many years ago. When I was 9, my parents presented me my first film camera and other equipment for film photography. Now I use digital camera too, but I still like to make film photography, prepare solutions, develop film and print paper photography in my dark room. Few years ago, I studied photography at Moscow State University of design and technology. My teachers there were such famous Masters as Leonid Kurskiy and Vladimir Vyatkin. Kurskiy also was professor on operator faculty in main USSR institute of cinema - All-Union State Institute of Cinematography. Vladimir Vyatkin is famous Russian photojournalist who won 1st prize and some 2nd and 3rd prizes at World Press Photo Competitions. He taught students to work at documental photography genre. Also I studied at Moscow School of Contemporary Photography from masters who shoot for such magazines as Officiel Russia, Interview Russia, Vogue Russia and others. My favorite photography genre is portrait photography. I prefer to work in photo studios where I can control the light. I like to make psychological portraits and I very like to work with models - make model tests, fashion and beauty photography. But from time to time I take my cameras and walk on city streets or parks. And I like to travel with my camera to other countries. Some of my works participate in international photography exhibitions and festivals. P.S. On the picture - first photography in the world which was obtained at 1882.