Present-day slavery

The idea that Dubai is an oasis of prosperity on Arabian Peninsula is one of great misrepresentation of reality. Dubai has Starbucks and Gucci, the tallest building in the world, but beneath these splendors, there is dictatorship build by slaves. The people who really built the city are immigrants’, they are toiling all day at the top of the tallest buildings in the world, they build malls and roads, work at the fish and meat markets, work as nannies. Emirates created a flawless system of exploitation, matchless to any other establishment in the world. They completely control and preserve their establishment, Emirates just observe and steer the system, and they don’t exert themself. People become migrants because of certain conditions at home; wars, poverty, inability to find work. In this situation for millions of people around the world even these “slavery” conditions is the only way to earn a living.

Formally a Mechanical engineer, I became a photographer in 2001. I graduated from Belarusian Polytechnic Institute with Master Degree in Thermodynamics. Currently I am completing the degree in Photography Technology at WCC in Ann Arbor. During the last nineteen years I have attended numerous workshops at Santa Fe, Maine and TWP photographic workshops. I had chance to met and study with outstanding teachers, they are the most influential photographers of our time who changed the way I look at the world. The list includes: Sam Abell, Antonin Krotochvil, Eugene Richards, Alex Majoli, Andrea Modic