Slava Filippov knows how equally interesting it is to take both a portrait of a celebrity and an advertising store – when you study the craft of a photographer yourself, willy-nilly, you have to master all genres.In the works of Filippov there is no artificiality, that too ideal picture, which so often spoils the impression of staging shootings. His style can be called “a living irony”, and, probably, it is for him that Filippov is valued in the editions of GQ, Vogue, Elle, Tatler, Citizen K and Harper’s Bazaar.
Slava Filippov, was born in Perm in the 1970. After school he worked as a turner at a military plant, then served in the Soviet Army, and in 1990 illegally moved to Austria. He worked as a loader in the warehouse, then as a driver in DHL and as a hobby he was engaged in photography. In 1996, Slava began to shoot for Austrian magazines. Gradually orders became more and more, and at some point he was fired from DHL for regular delays – so Slava had to devote himself entirely to photography. Filippov really wanted to live and work next to the sea, so in 2000 he found an agent in Barcelona and moved to where he rented for Spanish publications and advertising agencies, from there he moved to Paris. “I then had an unsuccessful period,” says Slava. “For 6 months there was no interesting work, so I decided to try to live in Moscow. It turned out that life is boiling here, so I stayed.”Slava Filippov likes to shoot easily: “I’m not a fan of heaped equipment, everything is very simple for me – one camera, one lens and two flashes, of which I usually only use one. Following this principle of simplicity, I collected this album of my selected works – there is no special concept in this collection, it’s just my favorite photos. I selected a variety of pictures – from random street acquaintances from the 90’s to celebrities, which I’ve had to shoot for magazines in recent years, and mixed them thoroughly. It turned out to be colorful, but vital – and this is exactly what I like most in photography. “Slava lives and works in Moscow working with Conde Nast, Hearst, shooting big Advertising campaigns and famous musicians and celebrities.
