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Consumed by the HeartModel: Garment: .lab “Srdce” by Lukáš Rais,
23/03/2026

Consumed by the Heart

Model:
Garment: .lab
“Srdce” by Lukáš Rais,

The staircases of these old halls always remind me of continuity. At the Nový PORG Ball , this sense of history becomes...
17/03/2026

The staircases of these old halls always remind me of continuity. At the Nový PORG Ball , this sense of history becomes almost tangible: we are not just guests here, but part of a story we are writing together with our children.

For me, such moments are about responsibility. It’s about the values we embed into the foundation today, to pass them on to our children and grandchildren. So that the “building” of their lives stands on a solid base of dignity and integrity.

Look: .lab
Ph: .kiki

J´14 Prague gave me children and brought me back to cinema.Although it all started much earlier.In the early 90s, a fami...
13/01/2026

J´14 Prague gave me children and brought me back to cinema.

Although it all started much earlier.

In the early 90s, a family friend who ran the Cinema Museum in Moscow opened this world to me. Not just movies, but festival cinema, unique screenings with live simultaneous translation right from the stage. It was unbelievable for soviet teen.

Then there was St. Petersburg. I studied mathematics at the University and, at the same time, entered the Institute of Film and Television. I honestly tried to combine them, but I just couldn’t handle the load. I had to work to make a living. I had to choose, and I chose a math degree.

And then Prague happened.
My first job here, quite suddenly, was for the film festival . And now, without even realizing how it happened, I am working on full-scale film projects 😅

Really love this tower by Devid Černý

J’2021 Looking at this tree, I think about people.The environment affects us more than we think. The wind, the cold, the...
12/01/2026

J’2021 Looking at this tree, I think about people.

The environment affects us more than we think. The wind, the cold, the events, and the circumstances we have lived through — all of this sculpts us.

Maybe that is why I love people over 40. And that is why I don’t like the idea of erasing my history or hiding behind artificial “perfection.”

In a mature person, it is not smooth skin that fascinates me, but the wholeness of the image. In the way they stand, the way they look, and the way they hold their posture, we see the shape of their entire life.

Just like this tree, which became itself thanks to the winds that tried to bend it.

Beauty is not the absence of flaws. It is a visible biography.

The environment shapes the form.

Two ways to touch the sky.
11/01/2026

Two ways to touch the sky.

J’07. Omsk. My final frame.I arrived in Omsk knowing this was goodbye. My grandfather had passed away a year earlier. My...
10/01/2026

J’07. Omsk. My final frame.

I arrived in Omsk knowing this was goodbye. My grandfather had passed away a year earlier. My grandmother was still there, but soon my mother would take her away, and this apartment would remain empty for a long time. Frozen in time before becoming someone else’s.

That evening, I stepped onto the balcony to memorize this view. But I wasn’t looking at the city; I was looking at what shaped me.

Early 90s. My mother brought me here from Tajikistan to escape the civil war. She brought me to safety — but she had to go back.

I stayed with my grandparents. For a child of the Middle Asia, the Siberian winter felt like outer space. But the silence was scarier than the frost. There was almost no connection with my mother, and I didn’t know what would happen next.

I spent hours at this window, using my breath and finger to melt a tiny peephole in the thick patterns of ice. I stared into the deep blue darkness, waiting.

It was then, in that waiting, that my «thistle» story was born.
This complex blue-gray, inky, dusty lilac — my grandmother’s favorite colours. It mixed with the twilight outside and etched itself onto my retina forever. Today, these shades are the foundation of my perception. This is my personal visual DNA.
Because color is not just paint. It is memory.

J’17 Timeless childhood. Costume available at .lab costume department. A venets-type with a pearl podniz, referencing ...
09/01/2026

J’17 Timeless childhood.
Costume available at .lab costume department. A venets-type with a pearl podniz, referencing traditional Northern Russian ceremonial headwear and its ornamental language.

J’25 The texture of January.Nature’s architecture knows no straight lines. In it, chaos becomes a pattern.
08/01/2026

J’25 The texture of January.
Nature’s architecture knows no straight lines. In it, chaos becomes a pattern.

J’26 Rondo cubism. Prague, 1920s.A time when architects believed that ideal form could bring order to the chaos of life....
07/01/2026

J’26 Rondo cubism. Prague, 1920s.

A time when architects believed that ideal form could bring order to the chaos of life.

Sometimes I like to feel the vibrations of a place where structure conquers entropy.

J’09 A screenplay where the director decided to mix all genres.I am amused by this conflict set against the backdrop of ...
06/01/2026

J’09 A screenplay where the director decided to mix all genres.

I am amused by this conflict set against the backdrop of the Volga. On one side — a woman by the temple, silence, and tradition.

On the other — naked men running through the snow, like a challenge to this piety (-35°C!)

A heavy, smoking industrial port — and right next to it, the absolute, ringing white void of the bay, turning people into tiny dots.

The holy and the carnal, the iron and the weightless. All in a single point of space and time.

A movie about life, where absurdity is the most honest part of the plot.

J’09 Arzamas. Sometimes the strongest street art is created by time itself.———-“This series is absolute ‘Russian Noir…Th...
05/01/2026

J’09 Arzamas. Sometimes the strongest street art is created by time itself.

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“This series is absolute ‘Russian Noir…The shots look like scenes from an unreleased black-and-white movie. Lenin and church domes frozen in the same space turn into a surreal installation. Within this geometry of cold and absurdity lies a Hitchcockian tension and depth that transforms documentary photography into visual philosophy.”

J’26 Over the last few years, I’ve felt an overdose. Of hypocrisy, fakeness, and visual noise.This applies to many thing...
04/01/2026

J’26 Over the last few years, I’ve felt an overdose. Of hypocrisy, fakeness, and visual noise.

This applies to many things. Including the mindless use of AI around us — when technology is used to hide a lack of real meaning. It also applies to what happens offline.

Because of this, I felt a strong desire to stop. I want to go through the archives accumulated over 25 years of my creative path. I need to rethink my own values. I want to remember what is truly beautiful, alive, and meaningful to me. Without looking back at other people’s projects.

So, photos from different periods of my life will appear here. Even those taken twenty years ago.

I am looking for my people. And I am taking back what is mine.

Adresa

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