JIM HAYNES

Photographer
+44 771 021 3148
oleg@oleg-photo.com

Born in Magadan (very-very North East of Russia - close to Alaska) where Oleg first learned to talk, to walk, to ballet dance and to draw, to draw, to draw...
Graduated from two schools - art and mathematical. Where to go is a really difficult puzzle for a seventeen-year-old boy...

After two years studying physics and mathematics in Ural Technical University, Ekaterinburg, Oleg eventually realised that photography was that particular medium of visual expression he was looking for.
Graduated from the Ural Academy of Art and Architecture, Ekaterinburg - in the very place where the last Russian Czar was executed and at the very time of Perestroika.

Started to exhibit his blurry abstract Black and White photographs.
His first exhibition abroad - Hamburg...

Graduated from the the Royal College Art, London - Cool Britannia in the swinging 90s...
Free-free-freelance photographer in London...
Leica...

Still the true passion is Black and White photography, especially Platinum-Palladium printing... Olegs works can be found in private collections and galleries throughout the world.
In the days of the RCA John Goto warned Oleg about a minefield called Commercial Photography. He believed in Olegs Fine Art. But Oleg wanted to try everything. Fashion, advertising, music photography...
Because of his prolific background Oleg has become an extremely flexible and multi directional photographer. You can easily recognise his unusual and striking images of Jodie Kidd, Jessye Norman, Bryan Ferry, Allan Rickman, Michael Nyman, Dita von Teese...