ALEXIS BALINOFF
4MN READ
JUNE 2024
A photographer literally draw and write with light. Photo = Light and Graphe= Draw or Write.
Most of your photos are made before pushing the buttons.
Always be an amateur, always be a kid. Be proud of being an amateur.
Your camera is a machine to ask questions.
Observe master photo books then look at your own photos.
Have convictions in your decisions.
The successful path is your path.
Shoot a lot to have a lot of words to write your poetry.
The easy way is always the wrong way.
Cultivate your difference.
As artist, we construct beauty.
Mix different medium, find color palette in painting and apply it in grading
Learn To See
Its not about the outcome (painting, photo, poem ect…) its more about understanding how they see the world
Its all about trying and failing, practicing.
Total photography is a lifetime of photo. Photos are given to him. He’ll have all his photos when his dead.
Obsession
He use a automatic analog camera to not care about the technic and forget about his photos so he can rediscover them later.
To make a book, 2 pictures talk with each other, together they create another world.
Bring mystery by saying a little than telling the whole. Let the people imagine the rest of the story.
Calls himself the king of the blind people.
Commercial is to sell. Art is to question.
Don't be attracted by the obvious.
Link to his work: https://szanella.com/