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Selected work2024 - 2026
Photographer 01

Presence.
Purity.
Poise.

Portrait, street, and video by Richard Dragulejev in Berlin.

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Berlin, GermanyAnalogue + Digital
01 / Approach

The camera is a tool, not the origin.

For me, photography is not an act of capturing, but of understanding. It begins long before I pick up the camera and does not end with the finished image. It is about seeing—about quietly observing spaces, people, and the traces that life leaves behind. I work close to my subjects without being intrusive. I am not interested in perfect surfaces, but in what lies beneath: tension, fragility, dignity. Every moment carries its own truth, and my task is to give it space. Technique is a means to an end. The camera is a tool, not the origin. It follows my intuition, my gaze. That I work analog is a consequence of this process—a form of deceleration that forces me to see more consciously and to make decisions with weight. But ultimately, the image is not created in the apparatus, but in the dialogue between me and the world. My work moves between documentation and interpretation. I do not seek staging, but presence. Not loud gestures, but quiet, lasting images that remain because they touch something that cannot be immediately explained. For me, photography is an attempt to find order in the fleeting—and at the same time to leave the unresolved as it is.

For me, photography is not an act of capturing, but of understanding. It begins long before I pick up the camera and does not end with the finished image. It is about seeing—about quietly observing spaces, people, and the traces that life leaves behind. I work close to my subjects without being intrusive. I am not interested in perfect surfaces, but in what lies beneath: tension, fragility, dignity. Every moment carries its own truth, and my task is to give it space. Technique is a means to an end. The camera is a tool, not the origin. It follows my intuition, my gaze. That I work analog is a consequence of this process—a form of deceleration that forces me to see more consciously and to make decisions with weight. But ultimately, the image is not created in the apparatus, but in the dialogue between me and the world. My work moves between documentation and interpretation. I do not seek staging, but presence. Not loud gestures, but quiet, lasting images that remain because they touch something that cannot be immediately explained. For me, photography is an attempt to find order in the fleeting—and at the same time to leave the unresolved as it is.

Headquarters is WE Studio Berlin In my studio The Chocolate Factory Studio, events revolving around art and culture take place from time to time: exhibitions, music, talks, and encounters in changing formats.
03 / Sequence

Street
Sequence

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04 / Position

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05 / Contact

Let us make an image that stays.

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