Meet Russian Photographer And Artist Oleg Dou

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zK5TSam9G9M9eaA8k7XaNC98Pz_0yqbdtHHvaA-yhbTm-zuujBMT-ZRnc3L2KMDFJ9qsx2UPuBUFCwPS-03FFlx8L7QFuo0loWjVtlBIQ98q3A6a_wD6tAtSSaANkAcPET_FTC2fyrSS/s1600-h/Vera2+2007.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129062634270732610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zK5TSam9G9M9eaA8k7XaNC98Pz_0yqbdtHHvaA-yhbTm-zuujBMT-ZRnc3L2KMDFJ9qsx2UPuBUFCwPS-03FFlx8L7QFuo0loWjVtlBIQ98q3A6a_wD6tAtSSaANkAcPET_FTC2fyrSS/s400/Vera2+2007.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 598px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />I can't even recall how I came across this young (and handsome!) photographer's unusual and haunting work, but I'm so glad I did. Be sure to visit his site for much more, I can only post so much.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirmAUI9mDeeYvfAsTupxWTqIPXd9krgiefe1pJgjSZAXhurS-CuPSHtfqF8mKH_bl_TfPD3SHjj7ldiaGF117Je5pEderxzBzeIO1YMrwji-n69ZHEWY44nmjPuIkq4pRZntdptTlyjtNV/s1600-h/dou+masthed.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129058158914810002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirmAUI9mDeeYvfAsTupxWTqIPXd9krgiefe1pJgjSZAXhurS-CuPSHtfqF8mKH_bl_TfPD3SHjj7ldiaGF117Je5pEderxzBzeIO1YMrwji-n69ZHEWY44nmjPuIkq4pRZntdptTlyjtNV/s400/dou+masthed.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 535px; height: 156px;" /></a><br /><br />OLEG DOU (1983-)<br />With staggeringly unique vision, Oleg Dou's work develops and pushes to the limit the idea of a body, evoked by the surrealists, as an object of subversions, distortions and other mutations that undermine its integrity.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiiEmd394dHppo1pj8OUFFcz-jk4Jeh00SErnaeBGW300Nn44jbRcMZImHoPk6CQQfJHh_XLIth_R3v8tN1xVlkXGGciCsW5KC3SkzhgIIob51IYPUCYZHx4kiZiKLrdI5PuWqwa-uOYH/s1600-h/me_2_by_duolegur.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124615605221560850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiiEmd394dHppo1pj8OUFFcz-jk4Jeh00SErnaeBGW300Nn44jbRcMZImHoPk6CQQfJHh_XLIth_R3v8tN1xVlkXGGciCsW5KC3SkzhgIIob51IYPUCYZHx4kiZiKLrdI5PuWqwa-uOYH/s400/me_2_by_duolegur.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 393px; height: 393px;" /></a><br /><i>Above: Self portrait</i><br /><br />His photography has been celebrated in Paris and Moscow exhibitions, as well as such French and Russian publications as Le Monde2, PHOTO magazine and Fotomasterskaya magazine.<br /><br />Often strange and disturbing, Dou's artistic search pushes to extreme limits, his subjects destroyed and massacred before the lens seemingly without pity...but take a look at their eyes and see if your interpretation is shaken.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigS99jHRpwiaaBi3nqUXEM7zHTdS8EouHe7kVrPTUYne2oQmC0XRhjarBAL_V5KNaL8g3rOw6un9SDGKqek7TqdD-LbZrGEBcZg4aUhFYGfynDkQJ-fe5gAt8dB018roV9WByKkmkzPy01/s1600-h/neck2.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129058481037357218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigS99jHRpwiaaBi3nqUXEM7zHTdS8EouHe7kVrPTUYne2oQmC0XRhjarBAL_V5KNaL8g3rOw6un9SDGKqek7TqdD-LbZrGEBcZg4aUhFYGfynDkQJ-fe5gAt8dB018roV9WByKkmkzPy01/s400/neck2.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 583px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvKpprsfDUNIn_7NQEytTr2xJrhSeDTs5-LXleNRkBGzlLEWrBkYa03ykxCc6Y7FW3ROphWzSE4RK-C2FcPDgIlrdmIh1FThgl65gaqvWyHEoy1WPEV3icB7FZXczcQyYbANmT7LWsMNh/s1600-h/puppet.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129058747325329586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvKpprsfDUNIn_7NQEytTr2xJrhSeDTs5-LXleNRkBGzlLEWrBkYa03ykxCc6Y7FW3ROphWzSE4RK-C2FcPDgIlrdmIh1FThgl65gaqvWyHEoy1WPEV3icB7FZXczcQyYbANmT7LWsMNh/s400/puppet.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 581px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9XWptklcgwTbP5y45LZZiI31g-3EoYwBk8EY9ssaO80MxAHbJpfDYFCHYdmW_2It09YXHkuSS-Xx-jP9KbJBGy0nRXTQbzTgkgdxD_T_znbtReSmrwO1r4GCrrV83rtoPJaRy_xVtYmZ/s1600-h/puppet2.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129058919124021442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9XWptklcgwTbP5y45LZZiI31g-3EoYwBk8EY9ssaO80MxAHbJpfDYFCHYdmW_2It09YXHkuSS-Xx-jP9KbJBGy0nRXTQbzTgkgdxD_T_znbtReSmrwO1r4GCrrV83rtoPJaRy_xVtYmZ/s400/puppet2.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 583px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VZOWQ6eT3737BwjrdBt6J6FBjagaJ8lbKMx91GoExSk_1MEuWT-hgMKWZFB8FvrCXDcIaOk3wbAfzk9K8tk8W5IFkRAWnBgC_rexb1LtjSqs_0cppRJYQFmzzquBNSXR42N-Qy2vmNu2/s1600-h/tie007.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129059919851401458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VZOWQ6eT3737BwjrdBt6J6FBjagaJ8lbKMx91GoExSk_1MEuWT-hgMKWZFB8FvrCXDcIaOk3wbAfzk9K8tk8W5IFkRAWnBgC_rexb1LtjSqs_0cppRJYQFmzzquBNSXR42N-Qy2vmNu2/s400/tie007.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 576px;" /></a><br /><br />Artist’s Statement:<br />"I was born in Moscow on the 19th of August in 1983. My mother was a painter, and I grew up spending a lot of time among artists — although I was not particularly interested in their activities.<br /><br />I felt an urge toward the arts and creation some time ago when I was working as a designer, and I began seriously studying design. That’s how I “bumped into” photography."<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLhuqBb3-ELU9YosZ46F2heFsQI3z0xbvycnSwtB3NEBNC2LmEtCQubjlS5fHA0lC1T8qB3CYfk8yB_cdd8r40hFr8nYF6dnGEZoyMrsmlCePWghBOfjoOq0yJ_Mb_3O96xUIrSVSKBw8s/s1600-h/wild+2006.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129060916283814162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLhuqBb3-ELU9YosZ46F2heFsQI3z0xbvycnSwtB3NEBNC2LmEtCQubjlS5fHA0lC1T8qB3CYfk8yB_cdd8r40hFr8nYF6dnGEZoyMrsmlCePWghBOfjoOq0yJ_Mb_3O96xUIrSVSKBw8s/s400/wild+2006.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 591px;" /></a><br /><br />"I worked hard to create my own style and technique. The main tool is computer photo-manipulation and a mix of several photos. I’ve already created several art projects and showed them in a few countries, including France, Belgium and the USA."<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahkfSFG8IdbAIkWoG2PPMsL50ZMApqSMpwlr34C_ufD6IxjSvHHUt7U7hSmeRMt2kWq97Z0y3Bniupy91sdAMqdujtyd_-AjHDxGfEhDcIRWVboCASDf2zKmEQ_LFB1HtXZ8L9LqLuKQc/s1600-h/Vasya2+2007.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129061229816426802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahkfSFG8IdbAIkWoG2PPMsL50ZMApqSMpwlr34C_ufD6IxjSvHHUt7U7hSmeRMt2kWq97Z0y3Bniupy91sdAMqdujtyd_-AjHDxGfEhDcIRWVboCASDf2zKmEQ_LFB1HtXZ8L9LqLuKQc/s400/Vasya2+2007.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 294px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfQCilFcsJlVqvu0UyMdrf5MtOqT746BnDSho3PTiJtplV79w7TUXv-61nEntM-fRKC-g9pem1Bywmif5h7BSk2Zf1NTE6WicZTNinVbFGi2VRwhQxgKCYeXWLmoHp8Lpv_0qmbwtWvXD/s1600-h/Vasya+2007.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129061139622113570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfQCilFcsJlVqvu0UyMdrf5MtOqT746BnDSho3PTiJtplV79w7TUXv-61nEntM-fRKC-g9pem1Bywmif5h7BSk2Zf1NTE6WicZTNinVbFGi2VRwhQxgKCYeXWLmoHp8Lpv_0qmbwtWvXD/s400/Vasya+2007.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 294px;" /></a><br /><br />"Creation brings me enormous pleasure. I am stubborn, ambitious and optimistic by nature; I like being different — and my work, I hope, reflects these features of my character."<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz5VHLr1Api0xeoIoivkWK8bnN9bR6RTcXptErjSyqfdb-plOVZdGF_XT8sd1tiSeWsbbTrg5Q6f60G-YdgCOGMiQSg7H2PfZcr3H3a0IYozyX-IwJc34YvQSn99aLPhlAeHtFx0DxyqET/s1600-h/Heart+2007.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129059335735849170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz5VHLr1Api0xeoIoivkWK8bnN9bR6RTcXptErjSyqfdb-plOVZdGF_XT8sd1tiSeWsbbTrg5Q6f60G-YdgCOGMiQSg7H2PfZcr3H3a0IYozyX-IwJc34YvQSn99aLPhlAeHtFx0DxyqET/s400/Heart+2007.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 588px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLVqu6JTy3JlRsKer-CfGe9fvVR-y950gKkdu_2CZmTWK-wlxGo5gfXLAGEeWeV1v6eHgLM12BCA3qWM0-TCJnFtIeQq9V-Yuh5QFqQz4dGZVM5nqhNRnKMb_8aDspI4c18Eq64u9ZxnBs/s1600-h/letters2007.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129059778117480674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLVqu6JTy3JlRsKer-CfGe9fvVR-y950gKkdu_2CZmTWK-wlxGo5gfXLAGEeWeV1v6eHgLM12BCA3qWM0-TCJnFtIeQq9V-Yuh5QFqQz4dGZVM5nqhNRnKMb_8aDspI4c18Eq64u9ZxnBs/s400/letters2007.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 579px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIOVhtsxvGjEEfvHsQF672VN1Td_NCIqNZuRYbG0L-5EuI5gvvRvpuLXD1V05_RI8WW0_VHzqfR6fQrFflzMueRDrQ6mRr4NHzDXtjP6Fkj4amVGpeAU0xA6BCSWPL9A2TdHZGrj4NH2tc/s1600-h/newspaper2007.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129060671470678274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIOVhtsxvGjEEfvHsQF672VN1Td_NCIqNZuRYbG0L-5EuI5gvvRvpuLXD1V05_RI8WW0_VHzqfR6fQrFflzMueRDrQ6mRr4NHzDXtjP6Fkj4amVGpeAU0xA6BCSWPL9A2TdHZGrj4NH2tc/s400/newspaper2007.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 579px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://duolegur.deviantart.com/"><br />The Artists Page on DeviantArt</a><br /><a href="http://douart.ru/"><br />See Much More of His Fabulous Work On His Website</a>

Meet Russian Photographer And Artist Oleg Dou

I can't even recall how I came across this young (and handsome!) photographer's unusual and haunting work, but I'm so glad I did...

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