In my photographs I try to show how I perceive the world: a flow of fast-moving brilliant images captured by the press of a button, a movement as gentle as a butterfly's wing. My subjects are beauty and movement, stasis and power, intimacy and love. Although I have been away from Russia for nearly 4 years, it still haunts my art: the brutality and the cynicism of the state and its rulers are a counterpoint in my work: a passionate statement against oppression which is the daily bread of life in my former homeland today.