He was born in 1983 in Leningrad, Russia. In 2005 he graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University and in 2006 he began studying photography at Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2012 he graduated from the Faculty of Press Photographers in St Petersburg and was part of the faculty's first group overseas exhibitionat the Catalonian Institute of Photography (IEFC) in Barcelona. Since 2012 he has participated in several educational programs and workshops organised by St Petersburg's Fotodepartament. Oleg is interested above all in landscape and people's place in it. Anton Sazonov