DOU: Portraits by Oleg Duryagin
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“Visially I am inspired by culture of fashion and surrealists. I often shock peple. I try to create the my personal aesthetics of the works, I try to combine reality with artificiality.” - Oleg Duryagin
DOU is the portfolio of young Russian photographer Oleg Duryagin. He works mostly on the human figure, and, in particular, the human face. This is the object of meticulous investigation and transformation for Duryagin, since his aim is to question post-human identity. All that is flesh goes through a kind of digital metamorphosis; it is erased, smoothed, and rendered to extreme precision. The finished portraits look very sculptural, non-human, surreal, inanimate, and in many cases, you can see a transparency of the porcelain skin underlining the fragility of every portrait…
Creation brings me an enormous pleasure, I became conscious of the fact that photography is something I always wanted to do. I am stubborn, ambitious and optimistic by nature, I like being different, and my work, I hope, reflects these features of my character - Oleg Duryagin
You can view more outstanding photographic works by Oleg Duryagin by visiting DOU. Some samples of my favorite portrait pieces below. Enjoy!
Nun 2 2007
Maria 2007
Glasses 2006
Cross 2007
Cell 2007
White 2007
Vera 2007
Vera2 2007
Vasya 2007
Heart 2007
Newspaper 2007
Tight2 2007
We are made of, 2007
Tie 2007
Red 2007
Nun 3 2007
Paper2 2007
Nurse 2 2007
Nurse3 2007
hear yourself
Alone
Neck 2
Tears of lost beauty 2007
No Name 2006
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February 14th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
[…] Oleg Duryagin es un escultor fotográfico. Esculpe figuras inquietantes con el rostro humano como motivo fundamental. Mujeres de piel lacadas, semi-transparentes, cargadas de una intención difícil de definir. Llenas de poesía. Las modelos en manos de Oleg sufren un proceso de transformación tremendamente delicado, las pieles se suavizan hasta adquirir la textura de la porcelana, los ojos transparentan. Las pupilas se vuelven penetrantes, sobrehumanas. El trabajo de Duryagin es impactante. Sólo tiene 25 años, así que prepárense. Más. […]
February 21st, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I recently saw your work in the Dec. 2007 issue of Rangefinder. I like your work it’s very eye catching. Nun 3 2007 especially, there’s something about that picture. Do you sell prints of this work?
February 21st, 2008 at 9:04 pm
@ Tammy - i’d suggest getting in contact with Dou on the links in the post. If you have problems with finding his contact email, give me a mail.
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 am
Oleg you are a bonafide shoota!!
bravo
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August 2nd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I agreed with you
September 14th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
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October 7th, 2008 at 4:47 am
[…] Oleg da miedo Después de una semana muy dura en la que el curro nos ha dejado medio secos a todos y tras pasar un largo puente en el que hemos estado 4 días sin postear, venimos con las pilas realmente cargadas. Y para empezar, hoy domingo, recién levantados nos despertamos descubriendo el portafolio del joven fotográfo ruso Oleg Duryagin y descubrimos con agrado que nos asusta al mismo tiempo que nos entusiasma. Su trabajo, basado especialmente en el retrato, es una mezcla de foto real y retoque digital gracias al cual el artista consigue moldear y deshacer las caras a su antojo. Nos inquieta y nos acojona pero quizás es de lo más potente a nivel visual que hemos visto estos últimos días. Más aquí. […]