An artistic photograph from the series "Swan Lake" by Vladimir Glynin

Vladimir Glynin is a modern popular Russian photographer and artist. Glynin has been known as a fashion photographer since 1998, when he began collaborating with Vogue Russia. His works have been created for L'Officiel Russia, GQ Russia, Harper's Bazaar Russia and other leading glossy publications. Since the 2010s, the author has moved away from fashion photography and engaged in art projects. Glynin's photographs resemble abstract compositions due to a special multi-exposure technique, the result of which viewers often mistake for painted digital effects, although all his photos are created manually and are not retouched.

The world-famous ballet Swan Lake was deliberately chosen by Vladimir Glynin. The author has been looking for ways to visualize the legendary plot for a long time, in which he found a wide range of human feelings and emotions combined with vivid images of the main characters, and which still leaves no one indifferent.

That's how he, a former Bolshoi Ballet dancer, came up with the idea of a photo story of Swan Lake with its incredible range of relationships between Good and Evil, Black and White. And when the ballet legend merges with black and white photography, you already have a synthesis of ballet art, photography and fashion. Each photo of this project is an independent work of art, with a certain intonation inherent only to it, but when they are put together, a powerful, dramatic artistic canvas appears.