- Please tell us something about
yourself. What made you pursue
photography, especially landscape
photography?
My name is Alexander Vershinin. I
was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1975.
I became interested in
photography in elementary school
when I was about 10 years old.
Those days there were no digital
cameras, and I had to develop
the films myself and print photos
without printers. Today I specialise
in large-format, fine art landscape
panoramic photography. I started
doing it professionally in the early
2000s, when I began to travel a lot
around the world. Later, simple
tourist trips turned into big phototours and expeditions, and I began to
bring panoramic photographs from
different parts of our planet.Over time, this hobby grew into a
profession. My works were selected
for the Annual GEO calendar in- Part of my work was bought
by Educa - a puzzles manufacturing
company, and I still find puzzles
with my photo arts in different
stores around the world. I still take
part in many photo contests. Maybe
someone will say that such contests
do not bring any profit to the
photographers, but they allow you to
keep yourself in professional shape,
not to relax and not fall below the
bar that you set for yourself. Many
organisers of photo contests request
me to leave my work with them
in order to showcase the images
Transcendent
Beauty
As told to Andrea Rodrigues
Alexander Vershinin is a professional
photographer and a member of The North
American Nature Photography Association
(NANPA), the International Association of
Panoramic Photographers (IAPP), Creative
Asia Photo Association, and the Professional
Photographers of America (PPA). He is
into adventure tourism and specialises in
panoramic landscape photos.Alexander is a 100 percent self-taught
photographer who has studied the art only
through books. He has travelled a lot and
takes part in many mountain and desert
expeditions. He has travelled through
Australia, South & North America and Asia
on his photographic journeys in search of
creating amazing landscape photos.According to Alexander, “landscape
photography makes it possible to better
see the world around us, to expand the
framework of the available view of nature, to
attract more depth and help find oneself in
places free of tourists”.Alexander
VershininWild at heartMASTERCRAFTSMAN
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