In a rare personal insight, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has revealed his long-standing fascination with photography. The President said he mostly uses... 11.02.2010, Sputnik International
In a rare personal insight, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has revealed his long-standing fascination with photography. The President said he mostly uses digital cameras, but sometimes still likes to use film. Currently he prefers new M9 digital version of classical Leica amid Canon and Nikon. Dmitry Medvedev considers human portraits as the biggest artistic challenge, but it would look a bit strange of him to suddenly turn up with a camera and start taking photos of people.
In a rare personal insight, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has revealed his long-standing fascination with photography. The President said he mostly uses digital cameras, but sometimes still likes to use film. Currently he prefers new M9 digital version of classical Leica amid Canon and Nikon. Dmitry Medvedev considers human portraits as the biggest artistic challenge, but it would look a bit strange of him to suddenly turn up with a camera and start taking photos of people.
In a rare personal insight, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has revealed his long-standing fascination with photography. The President said he mostly uses digital cameras, but sometimes still likes to use film. Currently he prefers new M9 digital version of classical Leica amid Canon and Nikon. Dmitry Medvedev considers human portraits as the biggest artistic challenge, but it would look a bit strange of him to suddenly turn up with a camera and start taking photos of people.
"What to take photos of? Anyone who picks up a camera asks themselves this question. I like to photograph nature, architecture, and of course, people," Medvedev said in his video blog.
"Though, to be honest, photographing people is no easy task for me because, given my job, it would look a bit strange if I were to suddenly turn up with a camera in my hand and start taking photos of people," he said.
"I’m afraid it would make people wonder what on earth I think I’m up to. But I enjoy photographing all other kinds of objects. Of course, the results vary, as is the case for anyone taking photos."
The president said that "the main sense of photography, of photos as an art, lies in that they capture the special sadness of moments already gone and never to be returned."
"True, there was a long period when I stopped taking photos, and then I started again, as an adult this time, probably after 30, and I got really interested in it once more after it became possible to buy modern cameras."
A black-and-white photograph of the Tobolsk Kremlin in Siberia, which Medvedev took during a helicopter trip, fetched 51 million rubles ($1.7 million) at a fundraising auction in St. Petersburg in mid-January
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