Video about this project on NPR - http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2009/dec/15/new-york-moment/
I was born in Belarus and grew up in Vietnam. For a while unfortunately I haven't been able to travel outside the US. My work is my only freedom. I want the viewer believe that a person in the image traveled to a different planet or a parallel Universe, or that I hijacked their dream. I look for those fantasy landscapes in the most boring places that you pass by every day. I also explore and speculate with my biggest passion - Quantum Mechanics, and here I'm stepping into miniature Black Holes, possible caused by the activity of the Large Hadron Collider. :-) In These photos I've traveled to Paris, Iceland, Vietnam, even to the surface of Mars, and Frozen Fairy Tale Forest on an unknown planet....
