About

Alexei Stepanov // photographer & other things

Whether it’s a place, an event, or a person, I’m rarely looking for the what-who-when-where-why, I shoot from one moment to the next, from one scene to the next. I have no interest in constructing a narrative as I shoot, I'm going with impressions and single pictures that later create a mosaic of the place, the event, the person. But all things rational happen after the camera has been turned off.

For me, photography is a way of experiencing the world and other people, enjoying the beauty, subtle connections and emotions without having to embellish anything. And there’s a special place in my heart for all things absurd.

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
Robert Frank

Rules

• No retouching
  
• No staging
• No additional light
• No babies

Exhibitions
- Part of the "Monochrome" exhibition by The Photographic Angle 

Locations 2021/22

• Saint-Petersburg until December 2021
  
• Chiang Mai for the winter (3-4 months)

Photo by Lena Kern