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My name is Oleg Dou.
I'm an artist, but sometimes some people call me a photographer.
It's not true.
I'm an artist who uses photography as a medium for my work.
I was born in Moscow, and I've lived all my life is Moscow.
I think the first time I realized that I wanted to be an artist
was around 6 or 7 years old.
My mother used to be an artist, and she spent a lot of time
with her friends, other artists, at their studio,
and me and my brother would spend a lot of time with them.
The earliest thing I remember is when I was 2 years old
I was shocked with electricity.
The worker came to our house to repair some electricity things,
and he left open wires, and I played with them,
and it was the wrong decision.
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I spend a lot of time visiting different museums and galleries,
and I was always interested in something really beautiful aesthetically
and very sad at the same time because sometimes it's a conflict,
and I think it's interesting.
I think that photography was something that's opened me to a new way,
new possibilities.
I got my first Photoshop when I was 14 or 13.
It was version 4.
In the beginning I just pushed all the buttons,
and I was looking at what will happen if I push this and this and this.
It was really magic.
You can draw something with the brushes, different kinds of brushes,
mixing layers, moving layers.
Wow, it was--wow.
I have a friend who is very pale,
and she had an old, classical face,
and I decided to make a present for her and to make a
good portrait of her, and then I wanted to try
to clean her face like in fashion magazines, how to remove spots from the face and so on,
and I didn't know the techniques at all to make it the right way, and I made it too much,
and I thought the result was interesting, and I made it once again and once again
on the same image, and it was just made by mistake.
As a result, it was something like what I do now,
and I decided to develop this and to see what will happen if I try more.
I wanted people to be a little bit shocked,
and I make their skin lighter than it is
to look like the person is more like an ill person or dead person maybe,
and the result was that many people were frightened with their images.
The beautiful face for my art is not the same
as the beautiful face for my life, and I prefer
to work with unusual faces.
I use real world objects quite often
or textures and combine them with the photography.
It depends on what I am planning to do.
Sometimes I know definitely what I want,
and sometimes I know just a little bit.
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I'm trying not to think about my future.
The only thing I really want is to create,
and I hope that what I will do will be interesting for the people and for me myself.
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