Dina Bova

"I would like to emphasize that I am not a pure photographer."

"I won many prizes in the field of photography, but nevertheless I am not a photographer in its usual sense."

"The reason I say so, is because photography is only a medium and photographs are just a starting material for my work, but not the final result."

"When I started photographing, I did not understand what exactly I want to achieve."

"I remember that I liked to capture moments from the lives of people and the amazing beauty of nature."

"After some time, I felt that this was not enough for me."

"I had a desire to tell not about what I see at a given scene and moment, but about what worries me at this moment in my life."

"I said that I turned my camera from the outside world to the inside world and these words still seem to reflect most accurately."

"I stopped capturing events and began to capture my thoughts and feelings."

"I am mainly an autodidact and have not received a systematic education in the field of photography."

"I took various courses in photography, post-processing, art history, drawing and composition."

"I have always been attracted to images where I saw some kind of secret, strangeness or hidden drama."

"When it was cold and foggy, I liked to watch a beckoning light from the windows of strangers’ houses."

"I also liked to watch how, under the street lighting, people’s faces could take a strange and sometimes even sinister expressions."

"I found myself thinking that I would like to transfer the people I meet on the streets to another time or space."

"I think that is what led me to what I am doing today."

"I think, that such things as classification and definition of style."

"Is probably the work of an art critic."

"I just express my thoughts and feelings using a personal visual language that closest to me, without thinking of which style to attribute it to."

"I started from classic photography during my travels around the world."

"In my early photographs I tried to seize the moments and documenting the surrounding world."

"I’m creating my own world of subjective reality with my camera and computer."

"My artworks are far from classic photography and remind paintings of Renaissance period and at the same time neo-surrealism."

"Truthful fiction is the basis of my creative style."

"My artworks don’t reflect the reality as we know it, yet convey a deep and true message."

"I believe, a fictional work may carry sometimes more truth than documentary work."

"As best said in the famous phrase "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures"."

"I use allegories as a way to express my understanding of the modern world."

"I talk about what's really important to me today."