My mother is an artist and I spent a lot of time among artists when I was a child. But I didn’t realized that I’m interested in arts till the age of 20.  So I finished my aducation at The Moscow State Institute of Steels and Alloys last year and I have my post graduate education there nowI don’t have special education in arts so I am self-taught artist. I was a designer for  some time and after I became a photographer.

I watched your photos in photonet, first… And they affected me… Specially "Naked Faces " … Are they your invention in PC ? What did you felt to start cold and smoothed  faces digi-project ?

I must say that I always wanted to be different from other people, so i had to invetm my own unique style in art. All of my work is a kind of alternative opinion about the human beauty.

Your model always look unfeeling… What are they you thinking in your mind  ?

I want to show humans inner world and his soul in my works. And one of the ways to do it is to be “unemotional” outside. I mean that i create a kind of contrast between real feelings of the people and the feelings they want to show.

What do you think about it’s difference in the contemporary photography compared with the classical photography?

It’s a kind of hard question. I think that main difference is a strong role of conception in contemporary art.

Who are the people that you capture in your photos? Are they important or is the artistic idea more important?

 It can be differend ways. Sometimes they are my friends, sometimes I pay models, sometimes it is commercial work and people pay meI make photo for existing idea or sometimes not, but the model is always  very important.

How is it to be an artist in your country? What are your artistic and intellectual satisfactions?

It is very different.. It is very conservative and opened to the new kind of arts at the same time.. We have many different festivals of modern art but our gallery market is very poor. I want to have a sucses here in Russia, but the only way for me is “to come back from Europe”.

What do you think about photo-art? How important is it in the today world?

I think that every human think that thing he is doing is interesting to all of the people and that it is very important Ofcourse I think that  photography is very important for art now.

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Which artists do you like? Who inspires you?

I can find  inspration  everywhere from classical paintings to modern fashion photography. Also i want to show my way of see and that is main inspration to crate something. My favorite artists are Ivan Pinkava, Erwin Olaf, Kimoko Yoshida and Ivan Pinkava,Erwin olaf,kimoko yoshida ve diğerleri.

I think you're living in art… Dou, what're your hobbies, what do you do for relax ?

Yes art is a main part of my life. I spend a lot of time with my friends and I adore swimming.

What's the meaning with your name ?

DOU is just a first letters of my full name that is  Duragin Oleg Ur’evich

You're a young photographer.. Do you earn enough for comfortable life with your art works?  What do you thinking about future?What do you suggest with young people that think starts to art ? 

Yes I do earn enougt and I have a lot of work now and I’m happy that my work  is very artistic.

The first period was very hard because I had to work a lot without any feedback, I had to buy camera and light and many other things..

The thing i want to say to yaung artist is that everithing is possible. If you imaging the aim of your artist career you will see how difficult the way to your aim is. But you shouldn’t be afraid of it. Try to divide this way to many small steps that you have to do and then just start to do this steps one by one..

Please may you tell me these words what reminded reminds to you? by your mind You can choose and thank you for sharing yourself to us…

Mom :  My mom  is an artist. And she influented  me alot.

Society : I want to show how stupid society stereotypes can be.

Digital :  Digital tools can do more than analog

Russia:  The biggest county in the world

Turkey :  The county loved by many people from Russia ;) And ofcourse it a grate mix of cultures

Paint :  I prefer Photo

Surrealizm:  I adore Dali

Computer : One of my main tools

Still Life: I have fun doing them

Model : I always tru to feel model

Web  : A grate thing to share my works with other people

Camera: I have canon eos 5d

Protest :  My project is a kind of a protest that is to show that a person should remain who he is and that people should perceive him in the way he is.