Alexander Kladoff

The Bicycle

Outskirts portrait

Misha and Tanya. Minsk 2012

Victory Parade #67

Solldier's tent in the park

Rows of empty chairs for the viewers

The central avenue closed for traffic

Schoolchildren are being driven to the parade under the supervision of teachers

Faraway parade

Member of the parade wrapped in the national flag

A veteran lagging behind tries to catch up with his group

Veteran supports himself to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame

Fainted veteran is led out from the crowd

Citizens queuing for soldier's porridge in the park

The leader of the Belarusian Orthodox Church says goodbye to the parade participants

The red flag on the television tower

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Venice

Gondolas

Grand Canal View

Bird and Lion

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Espresso di Neve*

An unforgettable train journey of 555 km in 3 hours on the route Venice-Rome

Fields, vineyards and olive orchards. A typical hilly landscape of the central region of Italy. Umbria is the only region of Italy, located on the Apennine Peninsula, landlocked

The flag of Iceland on a farm of Grutti town in the province of Umbria, as a sign of solidarity with the country that refused to pay the debts to the IMF

Olive garden lit with sunset rays

Dried olives on the trees left after harvesting last November. Olive trees are evergreens and live up to 1000 years

A small motorized vehicle on the street of Assisi, a town with more than 18 centuries of history

A monument to St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order

A sudden cold snap and snowfall are changing the daily lives of rural people

A villager feeding animals with hay. Half-starved pony was bought for 300 euros from another owner, who did not look after the poor animal

Snow-covered fields and vineyards. Rare landscapes for the central region of Italy

Broken wind turbine near the house in the village of Grutti in the central region of Italy

Unattended bicycles snowcapped in Foligno

Thrown out umbrella broken by snowfall

A man walking under his umbrella with a shovel during heavy snowfall

An elderly nun prays, looking at the snow-covered scenery outside the window of the train

A girl checking the ticket of the canceled tain at Bologna station. The trains in Italy are so late that they need to have a pregnancy test.

Four hours of waiting. An empty platform and railways covered with snow at the train station in Bologna

Exhausted passengers who bought seats, go standing in a crammed train carriage

Tired boy sleeping in a train Bologna-Venice arrived late by 5 hours due to heavy snow

Santa Lucia Railway Station in Venice. Dolls of Ministers of Italy hung on poles near the tent with protesting unemployed

In the off-season the traffic on the canals of Venice is weak. The gondolas are parked at the "roadside"

Treat yourself to a ride in gondola on the Grand Canal for about 100 euros per hour

The most сommon "crossroads" in Venice

Grand Canal is the busiest "avenue" and the main traffic artery of Venice. It is 3.800 m long, 30–90 m wide, with an average depth of five meters

In Venice, products and cargoes are transported by boats and distributed through the extensive system of more than 160 canals

A boat parked at the wall on the canal in Venice

Probably the only traffic light on canal in Venice

A pile of chairs on the Piazza San Marco in Venice

А man feeding pigeons in one of the squares of Venice

The railway station Termini in Rome. Screens, that usually show trains schedule, are broadcasting TV advertisements non-stop

Crowded subway station Termini in Rome is more like an unfinished tunnel

A man walking through the snowy streets of Rome

Snow-covered embankment of the Tiber in Rome

An elderly woman with a dog trying to cross the slippery street Ottaviano near the Vatican

Chestnuts seller clearing his place with spatula on Ottaviano street near the Vatican

Tourists are taking pictures of the Vatican's attractions

Christmas Tree at the Vatican

A man walking with two dogs in the Vatican

Сhildren are enjoying the winter, lying in the snow at the Vatican

А boy doing somersaults in the park in Rome

Sunlit street of Rome

a lonely caravan parked in the outskirts of the comune Bevagna, Umbria region

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Kids on the Block

Portraits of kids from old district of Minsk who live in one house

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Saint-Petersburg

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Сarpet on the Wall

In the apartments of Soviet citizens carpets on the wall served several functions:

1. Decorative
2. Insulating
3. Soundproof
4. Nice and expensive carpet show hosts welfare
5. Well crafted carpet was considered a piece of art

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim against the carpet. Helsinki, 1918. One of the earliest known photographs of this genre.

© Alexander Kladov / Minsk, 2011

© Alexander Kladov / Minsk, 2011

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Lady in Red

Waiting for Tramontana

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A Boy with Accordion

street photo, Saint-Petersburg, 2011

Tired Sun

I have the same feeling of freshness, tranquility and serenity over and over...
Reality sink in dreams, day falls into night...
To dream and stay real or experience another reality in a dream...
Sometimes it's hard to tell them apart...   

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Go Vegan

street photo, Saint-Petersburg, 2011

It's not a Golden Ticket

…photography rarely has the ability to change the system, but it has a great ability to change the way people think about the system.

Pete Brook

Looking for the Summer

We long for summer every year. Nobody pays attention when it comes — as it is everywhere and just goes on. For someone it's about quick escape to the shore or reaching summer cottage by car at weekends, or spending endless hours in a stuffy office with a noisy air conditioner, or idling in heat along the streets in search of shade. For others it's a careless life full of discoveries and endless walkings with new friends, riding dad's old bicycle, getting a knee bruised and hair full of sand, smelling fire smoke in the evening and saying goodbye to the sun. Hard to believe it could be otherwise. Or we have to dream about the summer again...

goodbye summer

last summer weekend

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What is «amnesia»?

Amnesia is the name of my blog, which just came into the world by the dancing with tambourines magic of Internet shamans of the tribe HelloWorld.by. These gurus of virtual space can materialize any graphic design and technical ideas in the form of cool sites, such as mine. As you can see now, the real shaman-programmer or magician-designer is not a myth, but reality!

I'm very communicative guy, sometimes speaking photographic language. Being not much connected to FB or LJ, I have remained almost "antisocial" personality.  Today, giant social networks are offering "rooms" for global communication, overloaded with unwanted services, advertising and messages that just make noise and distract from the real conversation, gobbling our precious time. For example, U.S. users of Facebook spend 53 billion minutes per month online, which amounts to 100,837 years! That's why we have managed to create a comfortable, simple and clean space for communication with my friends, acquaintances and clients, everyone  interested in a magical world of photography. I have lots friends around the world, so the blog will be bilingual.

Also, amnesia is a disease with symptoms of lack of memory or incomplete memories of the events. Amnesia can be spontaneous and often temporary. Sometimes memories come back in chronological order, starting with the oldest. Memories of the past events that preceded the amnesia, often never float back...

Who else, not counting a doctor, is dealing with human memory and memories every day? Every time I make a photograph or peer at freshly developed negatives, I'm trying to understand or remember something I perhaps do not know or haven't yet forgotten.

There are about 20 types of amnesia, go and search, you'll probably find your own that best fits you.

I know at least one effective remedy for this disease ...

amnesia medicine