I do believe that beauty saves the world, and do my best saving the beauty of our world in my pictures. I’m in love and totally captivated with the whole picture making process: from photo shots to ready to hang pictures. I create, print, mat and frame my art work in my home studio and workshop. My husband Richard Mullin supports my success, creativity, and work. He is the first audience I demonstrate my new artwork to, my sincere critic, reliable partner and loving friend. Richard has been a very good amateur photographer for many years, so he understands my passion very well. I think he’s had so much experience and knowledge during his life, that now he can relay the direct photography process at me. I can always “Google” my husband about anything I need to understand or esquire. He is my technical guide in this fast pasting photography world. Moreover, his amazing ability to find the right things by the best prices helps me a lot! Rich is always ready to help improving and developing my workshop with to good photo and mat/framing equipment. Besides, many smart things at my workshop have been made by his hands. Being a very skillful man, he spends a lot of time in his own workshop. I like to joke that my husband is captured by Four W: Work, Wife, Woodworking, and Welding. Love is sharing, so we do share our life, interests and creativity. Wherever we are, whatever we do, we are together. As two sweet cherries in our logo, we are united by love and passion to create. So, when the time had come to call our company, we called it as it is: Viktoria & Husband.
How I make my pictures:
“My wife makes pictures of anything and anywhere," likes to say my husband, and that is true. Indeed, everything I see, meet, get or buy may have a photographic interest: from exotic water lilies in Longwood Gardens to a simple beauty of wildlife flowers; giant plants and small colorful fruits; wildlife animals and domestic pets; neighborhood kids and marvelous characters of Old Sturbridge Village. I see pictures everywhere with my camera. It may be an old car I captured on a highway while driving home; an osprey hunting for fish; an antique hand painted decanter or a whimsical frost pattern. I’m always with my camera and ready to travel. Fascinated with the bird world, I do long trips to get photographs of wildlife ones and delight attracting backyard birds to bird feeders at home. I raise roses in my garden with a great passion, and on my pictures the roses reveal in love with me in replay.
The beautiful shapes and colors of fruits and magnify me so much, that I’d prefer to photograph them rather than eat J. First what I do before creating a composition, I discern examining them to find that subtle something what makes them so different and alike. I hold them in my hands to sense their live warmth and feel stories they may tell me. I don’t merely juxtaposing my objects for a composition. I choose and select them by repetition of shapes, lines, and textures. Then I mix and match them by colors and moods. Yes, they do have their own mood, believe me. The set up of a composition for still life should be looking like a good orchestra: many different musical instruments in different voices singing one beautiful melody. I put jbjects looking interacting, so the whole composition seems like a still story.
Sometimes I manipulate and combine the photographs in my digital dark room. I create new pictures from my photographs, altering them by the way I see, touch and sense the world. I say:”If I can’t see, I can hear; if I can’t hear, I still can touch the beauty of our life.” I touch the world with my pictures and the world gets closer to me.
My dear visitor, we're united by this world. Let’s try to see it, look at it...It is beautiful!
