The first thing Oleg Dou remembers from his childhood, is being electrocuted when he was two years old. From the moment he ‘cleaned up’ a photo of a friend too much, he decided to go forward with this hauntingly beautiful style of photography.
“I am looking for something bordering between the beautiful and the repulsive, living and dead.”
I find it extremely important to do what I do beautifully; not for beauty itself per se, but more so as a tool that makes my ideas both interesting and workable.
I want to concoct a situation that happens, for example, in european films: There doesn’t seem to be a specific message, but the situation plays with our head and makes us ask ourselves questions like ‘what is this?’ and ‘what is this for?’