Mikhail Malyshev. Mikhail Malyshev: "Aerobatics - when a photo does not need a name

Mikhail, tell me, are photographers born or made? Can this be learned?

You can teach photography, it's just a matter of time and background. It's like there are people who are well-read, but in terms of photography, you can say "seen". When an artist starts photography, he does it better than the average beginner. Because his view has already been formed, there is an understanding of how and what he wants to capture. The camera is a tool for conveying beauty.

Mikhail Malyshev: "Aerobatics - when a photo does not need a name"
Photo by: Olga Korobeynikova

That is, before becoming a photographer, you need to be an artist?

If you want to receive beautiful images, then you need to educate the artist in yourself, you need to visit exhibitions, study different authors, Russian and Western painting, etc.
If you can draw but cannot see, you are not an artist yet. Often the ability to see is half the success. The rest is technique. First of all, I teach my students to set a task and understand what exactly you want to see and then capture.

And what does a photographer see that an ordinary person cannot catch?
- Little things, details, nuances. As a rule, when people photograph something, they see only the subject, and then they are surprised to find some foreign objects in the background, for example, a tree that creates the effect of growing horns on the subject of the picture. The photographer, on the other hand, sees the big picture and knows what the final photo will look like.
Another important nuance: if I shoot a portrait, I always think about emotional state the person I want to capture, not just how to position and photograph them. This is a job that you need to be able to do, and it is not only about choosing the shutter speed.

What do you call quality photography?
If people see the photo and understand what you wanted to tell them, the photo is a success. Usually we see more than what fits in the lens, because the camera narrows the field of view, displays on average only 100 degrees out of 360 - this average lens. That is, you cannot convey what was on the right or left, what was the smell, the air, whether it was hot. You will either have to write a long explanatory text for this photo, or search means of expression, which will make a person understand from the photo that it was, for example, cold. Aerobatics is when a photograph does not need a name.

Nevertheless, despite all the subtleties of this craft, photographers today great amount: yesterday's managers buy a DSLR on credit, complete two-month courses and acquire new profession, which today breaks records in popularity. Where does this fashion in the photo come from?

Eat good joke on this topic: “If you bought a flute, you have a flute. If you have bought a camera, you are a photographer.” I don't see anything wrong with people getting into photography, it develops people. Anything is better than alcohol and idleness.
The popularity of this or that hobby is always associated with technological breakthroughs.
If we turn to history, then photography officially appeared in 1839, and by the end of the 60s there were about three thousand commercial photographers in France. Their number grew in proportion to the simplification of technical issues. Older photo it was black and white, it had to be developed, it was a laborious process. Today, the pictures are in color, no effort is required for “development”. An alternative to bulky equipment - Cell phones with photo apps, they are easy to use and make the process fun.
Can a photo taken on a mobile phone be considered on a par with professional pictures as a work of art?

It is incorrect to compare, but there are photographs that are just as expressive as those taken with professional equipment. I myself shoot on the phone, I have a series of works dedicated to bus passengers, and among them is my favorite photograph, which I call "pianist".

First you see a girl who is sitting at a piano piled with flowers, and then you find out that this is a saleswoman at a flower market. The moment of transformation, mystery and magic is amazing, no matter what instrument it is captured with.

Can you make a portrait of a Rostov customer for photo services? What kind of pictures do people want?

Complex issue. People come to me for portraits: business ones, girls order colored, glamorous portraits. One of my clients printed her portrait photo on the entire wall and hung it in her apartment.

Yourself-beloved, but on the whole wall?
Why not? I think this is absolutely correct. When there is a photograph of you beautiful, it serves as a kind of tuning fork for you. All people tend to deviate from the norm in their appearance, and when you see how you were in the photo - slender, beautiful, well-groomed, you want to return to this state.
Yes, but often a photo is a processed, retouched picture, there is little naturalness in gloss ...

There is beauty, and there is prettiness, and these concepts should not be confused. Beauty is like very sweet coffee: if you pour ten spoons of sugar into it, it will be cloying. And beauty is when there is tasty coffee, and there is just enough sugar in it to make the taste of the drink sound even better. Then the coffee reveals its aroma. I work according to this principle.

They say to make it happen good photo, you need to fall in love with the model a little
Yes, I agree. Any photography is part of a certain game, an exchange of energy, and the task of the photographer is to reveal the model. You get into it, and yes, you fall in love a little.

This, probably, especially attracts those who specialize in shooting "nude"?
In my opinion, shooting "nude" gives too much of a reflex effect. If you see a naked girl, you instantly feel something. It `s naturally. I would compare it to alcohol: when you drink whiskey, you feel intoxicated, whether you like it or not. The effect of intoxication is inevitable.
What's bad about it?
Nude is too easy for me.
Tell us about wedding photography. It seems to me that this is generally a separate caste of photographers, with serious prices for services and special requirements ...
Wedding photos are first of all emotions. Therefore, when the client asks the first question - about the cost of services, I answer that money is not important in this matter. You pay with your trust, communication and emotions. It is much more expensive than money, it is rather a matter of priorities. Agree, if a person really wants something, then he finds an opportunity and means, and buys it.

Photo: From the personal archive / Mikhail Malyshev

In fact, photos and videos are the main documents after the wedding. There is a cake, a dress, an impressive list of people who came to the celebration, and so on. And if we calculate in percentage terms how much the shooting and the wedding itself cost, then these are two absolutely incommensurable figures. Even the most luxurious wedding good photos- not exactly the same. If people do not understand this, then they have a different value system.

Since we are talking about the value system, you probably know about famous photo"Rhine II" by German photographer Andreas Gursky, which was sold at auction for $4.34 million and was recognized as the most expensive in the world. At the same time, the picture is rather boring and uninteresting ... What affects the value of a photo? What is it made up of?
Photo in the context of the art - market - separate story. Much depends on how famous the photographer is, what year the picture was taken, how many there were in total, what the size of the prints is, and how much the legend of this photo is promoted. It is important to have a collector and a competent presentation of an object of art.

For example, no one famous artist sells his painting to a collector for a modest sum. When reselling a painting, its value increases, and after 5-6 such transactions, the amount can increase to a million. And at the auction people compete who are ready to lay out for a piece of art very large sums. As for the subject of the image, it can be very different and evoke certain feelings.

It is known that the photograph of Ernesto Che Guevara in a black beret is a symbol of the 20th century and is recognized as the most famous and replicated photograph in the world. And who, in your opinion, could be depicted as a symbol of the XXI century?

This photograph symbolized significant event for the whole world - the revolution in Cuba, and it is interesting that it was the revolutionary Che Guevara, and not Fidel Castro, who became the symbolic person. This suggests that we ourselves invent our heroes. Our century is not over yet, but today, it seems to me, the symbol of our era could be Steve Jobs. His photograph is also quite replicated.
Who would you like to photograph? Is there a so-called "photographer's dream"?

I dream that it would be possible to "photograph with the eyes". So that the image taken with the eyes can be captured, digitized, and transferred to paper.
It is interesting to make portraits of such outstanding personalities as mathematician Grigory Perelman, Vladimir Putin, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. I perceive these people as playing a certain role in the life of Russia. Undoubtedly very interesting person Queen Elizabeth. I would like to photograph her in my own way, because her classic photographs are almost all the same.
I am interested in working with public people, but the difficulty is that they usually wear a mask without taking it off. I remember the story of my interview with Stanislav Govorukhin. We talked with him before the press conference, he sincerely told something, and the hour spent chatting in an informal setting was very exciting, and, it seemed to me, sincere. But the conference began, and he began to tell the same thing, in the same words ... I realized then that media people have already worked out "speech", memorized texts, postures, facial expressions, and in order for a person to open up in front of you, you need to have a truly great mastery of getting people to like you.

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Few people imagined that in the house on Marshal Rybalko Street, in the 128th apartment, a tragedy would break out, about which policemen, who have seen the world so far, speak with a shudder.

scary apartment, - recalls the senior detective of the Kirov police department in Perm, Alexei Filippov. - It all started with the fact that a dismembered corpse of a man was found in one of the garage cooperatives. The body was dug up by stray dogs. A preliminary examination was carried out at the scene. Her results were shocking.

From the special medical report:

"Fragments of tissues were isolated on the remains, which were cut off with a sharp object, presumably with a knife. Part of the right thigh and leg were cut off. No missing tissues were found."

In forensics, it happens that individual parts of the body are not always found. In such cases, you can assume anything, including cannibalism. It became clear: the butcher had thoroughly worked on the body. The operatives began to search for the suspect, but they could not quickly get on the trail of the cannibal.

Misha is a glutton

According to the recollections of neighbors, Misha grew up as an ordinary boy, maybe a little more vulnerable than other children. Mother and father often came drunk and made scandals. He was terribly worried, and when he was angry with someone, he took out his anger on pets.

Once in the yard, he cut off the tail of a neighbor's cat. When the tenants came to the parents to sort it out, the flayer's mother told them from the doorway: "Well, think about it! The bear is angry with his father. So I decided to unleash evil on this creature." Mom always stood up for him, severely dealing with offenders. He graduated from eight classes with unsatisfactory behavior. In three years, Mikhail changed three schools. Didn't go to work. Yes, they didn't take him anywhere.

Over time, his behavior has not changed. Since 1990, for violent acts against animals, he was registered with the juvenile inspectorate. He admitted to the district police officer that he had eaten animal meat. But the law enforcement officer did not attach any importance to this, considering the flayer's stories to be boyish fantasies. But in vain.

Attics and basements became Misha's favorite places of leisure. He dreamed of working at a meat-packing plant, where, as he believed, one could eat one's fill. In the family, he was not spoiled with delicacies, although alcohol was found in abundance.

Malyshev's independent life went awry. He worked odd jobs. He was often visited by guests: men with traces of an eternal hangover and ladies battered by life. The apartment turned into a brothel where one booze followed another. And then one day the thought came to his mind: why buy groceries when the food itself comes to your home for free?

clumsy work

Six months after mysterious murder male operatives found the dismembered corpse of a woman in the Kama River. When the disfigured fragments fished out by police officers from the river began to be examined by experts, trying to restore the whole, to everyone's amazement, extra parts were revealed that belonged to a previously killed man. The version about a mentally abnormal person who eats human flesh was confirmed.

According to their sources, the operatives received information about an apartment on Rybalko Street. The case was given a move, and soon the detectives came close to the suspect. It was decided to search Malyshev's apartment.

Residents of the house, - says detective Alexei Filippov, - have heard heart-rending cries more than once. However, no one called the police. The owner did not open the metal door. I had to hack it. What they saw shocked everyone.

In the kitchen was a large number of cutting boards, an axe, knives... On the stove was a saucepan with leftover soup. The freezer was full of human flesh, cut into small pieces. The sight was terrible. The policemen, who had seen dozens of corpses in their lifetime, swallowed Validol in handfuls.

The cannibal kept a diary

The first to be interrogated was Malyshev's cohabitant Inna Podserdtseva. Her face seemed to have a mask of horror.

From the testimony:

He cut off my ear and ordered me not to leave the house anywhere. Said, "If you don't listen to me, you'll end up in the fridge." He made me roll the meat, turning the fillet into minced meat. I thought with horror that the same fate awaited me. I was afraid to run.

During the interrogation, Malyshev behaved imperturbably.

How did the murder happen?

Just. They drank, quarreled... I hit with an axe. He calmed down when the blood washed his hands. Then he did everything in the bathroom.

What did they do with the dead?

The soft parts are used for frying cutlets. Threw away the rest.

The maniac started a notebook, where he scrupulously wrote down the recipes of his culinary art. A note was made in the margins, underlined in red pencil: "There is a king in the world, this king is merciless, hunger is his name."

Malyshev was in solitary confinement until the trial. Stared at the same spot all day long. The cannibal did not ask for anything and was not interested in anything, maintaining complete indifference.

At the trial, curses were thrown at the maniac, but he seemed not to notice anything.

The court sentenced Malyshev to capital punishment. Presumably he will get a life sentence. Many thought crept in: is Malyshev mentally healthy? The court found the cannibal fully sane. Yes, this is understandable. Law enforcement agencies cannot give a 100% guarantee that the cannibal will not be free after the psychiatric hospital. And who wants to get a maniac for dinner?

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The city was seething. The city was outraged. It seemed that an evil monster feeding on human flesh had appeared in the Perm region. Mikhail Malyshev was detained in January last year. He killed people. Any death does not paint a person, but such a ... A severed head, a torso without arms and legs, ripped open stomachs, cut off pieces of the body. Malyshev was charged with two episodes. However, the investigation believes that there are many more victims.

Few people imagined that in the house on Marshal Rybalko Street, in the 128th apartment, a tragedy would break out, about which policemen, who have seen the world so far, speak with a shudder.

A terrible apartment, - recalls the senior detective of the Kirov police department in Perm Alexei Filippov. - It all started with the fact that a dismembered corpse of a man was found in one of the garage cooperatives. The body was dug up by stray dogs. A preliminary examination was carried out at the scene. Her results were shocking.

From the special medical report:

"Fragments of tissues were isolated on the remains, which were cut off with a sharp object, presumably with a knife. Part of the right thigh and leg were cut off. No missing tissues were found."

In forensics, it happens that individual parts of the body are not always found. In such cases, you can assume anything, including cannibalism. It became clear: the butcher had thoroughly worked on the body. The operatives began to search for the suspect, but they could not quickly get on the trail of the cannibal.

Misha is a glutton

According to the recollections of neighbors, Misha grew up as an ordinary boy, maybe a little more vulnerable than other children. Mother and father often came drunk and made scandals. He was terribly worried, and when he was angry with someone, he took out his anger on pets.

Once in the yard, he cut off the tail of a neighbor's cat. When the tenants came to the parents to sort it out, the flayer's mother told them from the doorway: "Well, think about it! The bear is angry with his father. So I decided to unleash evil on this creature." Mom always stood up for him, severely dealing with offenders. He graduated from eight classes with unsatisfactory behavior. In three years, Mikhail changed three schools. Didn't go to work. Yes, they didn't take him anywhere.

Over time, his behavior has not changed. Since 1990, for violent acts against animals, he was registered with the juvenile inspectorate. He admitted to the district police officer that he had eaten animal meat. But the law enforcement officer did not attach any importance to this, considering the flayer's stories to be boyish fantasies. But in vain.

Attics and basements became Misha's favorite places of leisure. He dreamed of working at a meat-packing plant, where, as he believed, one could eat one's fill. In the family, he was not spoiled with delicacies, although alcohol was found in abundance.

Malyshev's independent life went awry. He worked odd jobs. He was often visited by guests: men with traces of an eternal hangover and ladies battered by life. The apartment turned into a brothel where one booze followed another. And then one day the thought came to his mind: why buy groceries when the food itself comes to your home for free?

clumsy work

Six months after the mysterious murder of a man, investigators found a dismembered corpse of a woman in the Kama River. When the disfigured fragments fished out by police officers from the river began to be examined by experts, trying to restore the whole, to everyone's amazement, extra parts were revealed that belonged to a previously killed man. The version about a mentally abnormal person who eats human flesh was confirmed.

According to their sources, the operatives received information about an apartment on Rybalko Street. The case was given a move, and soon the detectives came close to the suspect. It was decided to search Malyshev's apartment.

Residents of the house, - says detective Alexei Filippov, - have heard heart-rending cries more than once. However, no one called the police. The owner did not open the metal door. I had to hack it. What they saw shocked everyone.

In the kitchen there were a large number of cutting boards, an axe, knives... On the stove was a saucepan with leftover soup. The freezer was full of human flesh, cut into small pieces. The sight was terrible. The policemen, who had seen dozens of corpses in their lifetime, swallowed Validol in handfuls.

The cannibal kept a diary

The first to be interrogated was Malyshev's cohabitant Inna Podserdtseva. Her face seemed to have a mask of horror.

From the testimony:

He cut off my ear and ordered me not to leave the house anywhere. Said, "If you don't listen to me, you'll end up in the fridge." He made me roll the meat, turning the fillet into minced meat. I thought with horror that the same fate awaited me. I was afraid to run.

During the interrogation, Malyshev behaved imperturbably.

How did the murder happen?

Just. They drank, quarreled... I hit with an axe. He calmed down when the blood washed his hands. Then he did everything in the bathroom.

What did they do with the dead?

The soft parts are used for frying cutlets. Threw away the rest.

The maniac started a notebook, where he scrupulously wrote down the recipes of his culinary art. A note was made in the margins, underlined in red pencil: "There is a king in the world, this king is merciless, hunger is his name."

Malyshev was in solitary confinement until the trial. Stared at the same spot all day long. The cannibal did not ask for anything and was not interested in anything, maintaining complete indifference.

At the trial, curses were thrown at the maniac, but he seemed not to notice anything.

The court sentenced Malyshev to capital punishment. Presumably he will get a life sentence. Many thought crept in: is Malyshev mentally healthy? The court found the cannibal fully sane. Yes, this is understandable. Law enforcement agencies cannot give a 100% guarantee that the cannibal will not be free after the psychiatric hospital. And who wants to get a maniac for dinner?