Born in 1980 in the industrial city of Tchelyabinsk in the Southern Urals, Russia.
At the age of nine I was given my first camera and in my city I met my first mentor Victor Gruber who followed me until I was eighteen; every week I brought him the photographs that I printed in black and white at my house, we looked at them together and he gave me suggestions on how to improve. Thanks to him I fell in love with photography.
In 2004 I took the first prize of the national photographic competition of the Corriere della Sera thanks to which I participated in the workshop with Gianni Berengo Gardin. Subsequently I started working in publishing, first in Milan with the Prospekt Photographers agency and then I worked on photographic projects that took me to India, Nepal, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Russia and Italy for Italian and international magazines.
I have collaborated with National Geographic, Marie Claire, L'Espresso and others.
From 2007 until today I have been a photographer for Baku magazine.
I participated in the creation of the photographic part for the book Why Italians like to talk about food; an itinerary through history, culture and customs by Elena Kostioukovitch with an introduction by Umberto Eco. The book has been translated into several languages and published all over the world.
Now my interest remains in the sphere of Poetic photography, as defined by a great photographer from the Magnum agency Georgy Pinkhassov from whom I learned the vision of light, which takes us beyond form and allows us to capture moments not only in a documentary way, but allows every single photograph to become a parallel universe.
After the pandemic I moved with my family to Orsigna, a small village in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.
Photo by Adil Yusifov
