Alexander Ivashkevich
Women, their image, and their personality play a significant role in my art. Women's beauty was worshipped from ancient times and every era had its own canons and criteria. Artists and poets addressed women's beauty as something unearthly, divine, alluring, and inspiring. They were showing their heroines signifying their sexuality without making it appear vulgar. A woman is a perfect creation of nature, and by being perfect, she expands the boundaries of our perception of beauty.
I see how current time has changed the direction of fashion and understanding of the definition of a woman’s attractiveness making it standardized and often unnatural due to modern trends and technologies.
I feel that our society needs to be reminded of the worth of natural beauty that is just around us.
My desire to help people to see it pushed me to create a gallery of contemporary women that have preserved the treasured qualities of the past.
I also want to bring warmth and cosiness back to people’s homes by means of art photography and have always dreamed of making photographs with high aesthetic standards.
Alexander Ivashkevich (1960) is a professional theatre and movie actor living in Estonia.
The charming combination of an explorer and an artist, who strives to capture human beauty and discovers the uniqueness of every face and body. He loves to say that beauty is not in eternal youth but in the wealth of the inner world of the person. He has been figuring out this mystery for more than fifteen years of fine art photography experience within artistic, psychological, vintage, family portraits, and boudoir series.
During the photo sessions, models always have the opportunity not just to pose and to look attractively, but to explore previously unknown discoveries about their personalities and souls. Alexander's photoshoots always create an exquisite interplay between such notions as gestures and expressions, the model’s inner world making public, and dialogue with the artist and audience. People who have posed to Alexander Ivashkevich often declare that this is one of the most aesthetic ways of psychotherapy.
All of the photos are framed individually because every single detail of his photo works (medium, type of paper, glass, and frame) helps to get the full emotional experience of the photo.
He also implements the French technique of verre églomisé (application of both a design and gilding onto the rear face of glass), creating exclusive fine art pieces.
He has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions (22 solo and 10 collective exhibitions) and his works are owned within private collections in Germany, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, UK, and USA.
