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I have born in 1971, in Latvia, in small town Ogre, I finished secondary school here and afterwards studied in university and got BA degree in English philology - in the capital of Latvia - Riga.
During school time I learned in art school and took part in several young painters’ competitions.
My every day work is public relations and photojournalism. I started photography 2 years ago more seriously, when I together with my husband bought our first dsrl. Since that I started to post my photos in different web sites in connection with photos, such as photo.net and photosight.ru. Since that time I also started to post my photos in different contests, in local and also in international, I got the first prize in local photo contest 'maja' in 2004, the prize in local photo contest “Redzi Rigu” and got the 1 rst and 2 nd prize in the international youth photo contest ' Cantabria + 10' . Together with my husband , make 2 photo exhibitions in local town in 2005. As well as made together with him one-day excibition in the capital of Latvia Riga - in youth club ' Depo' . I am married and my husband is also photographer, we have 2 children who very often are our models, we have 2 - daughter - Linda , she is 8, and son - Daniels (6).
The area of the photography are - people, portraits, people portraits in nature, most favourite - children, as well as abstract things, photo manipulation as well as natural photos, I prefer more BW photos.
In fact I haven’t changed my areas since the very beginning its people, I have never focused on for instance - birds, landscapes, animals...because I prefer human feelings, human emotions and that’s why I show people in my works.
My heroes are people around me, I very often photograph my 2 children, I got inspiration from my everyday, from events around, from music I listen, just sometimes from my emotions how I feel or how other people feel around me, that’s why some of my photos may look depressive or black, because I try to show the saddest side of our life, there are so many unhappy people around us nowadays - many poor and homeless.
As I told before, I prefer to focus on human things in general, I cant see the picture, the scene for instance of the bird or the cat, I cant feel them, the same goes to still life, sports and landscape photography, the things that touches me is - human relations, the life around, that’s why I focus on portraits.
In fact I am very much inspired from Jan Saudek, that’s why some of my portraits maybe seams to people weird, I very rare show such called ' classical beautiful ' portraits, I like to watch deeper, the portrait is not only the eyes, the lips, the expression, but this is the look in soul. To me to shoot the portraits - I need time, the model and the idea, although sometimes ideas arise when I started post processing of the photography in computer.
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