Dmitriy Filimonov — street photography

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Street photography · film and digital

About

I walk the streets and photograph moments — chance gestures, shadows, coincidences that vanish a second later.

I started on black-and-white film and developed it myself, in a darkened bathroom, by the timer and by feel. Later I moved to digital, but the habit of seeing the world in shades of grey stayed with me — most of my photographs are black and white.

Film taught me the main thing: you have to see the frame before you press the shutter.