Valery Bareta

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About the author

After having studied at a Polytechnical Institute in his hometown Mariupol, Ukraine, Valery Bareta realized that being an engineer was not in his nature. He participated in numerous creative expeditions, and general travel trips, where he found himself as an artist.

Valery Bareta went to work for an USSR Art Foundation where he decorated interiors, designed and painted. He participated in various exhibitions. He tried to paint and shoot at same time, but soon he realized that he needed to choose between those two and so he changed brush to camera.

At that time, Art-nude was something impossible in USSR, as 90% of images in the Soviet Photo, a magazine were political and ideology. He moved to Estonia and became a professional photographer, in terms of making a living. Nowadays, he has a studio in Tallinn and some Projects in Kiev.

His philosophy: Looking for a possibility to apply content to a form and vice versa. He tries to express his attitude and feelings, transmit mood and emotional colors, and reveal things that are hidden at first.
So first: creative idea; second: thought; and then he expresses it by photographical means.

Bareta has no negative attitudes towards new technologies, and he also enjoys shooting classic “film” photography. Everything is interesting to him and he works in a variety of genres with great pleasure.