I first saw Sasha Antipenko in 1958. The film "Pin a Rose to your chest" was shot at the Dovzhenko studio. Every day Sasha appeared with a camera. He did not interfere with anyone, did not ask that a frame be organized specifically for him. I just crawled on my stomach, hid and reappeared, looked for the most expressive moments and filmed.

I remember the material in the film was very bad. The pictures amazed everyone. Someone even half-jokingly said: "Maybe you will shoot the film yourself?"

— No, I have another profession. I'm a photographer," he said then.

Yes, then Sasha Antipenko, having passed the vocational school" having studied the profession of a cabinet maker, began his career in cinema as a production worker, and then became a photographer of a film studio.

Many people know him today. They know that he is a real human being and an unusual artist.

He continues to learn to shoot, although he has been shooting beautifully for a long time, and there are few cameramen in our country to whom he will be inferior in skill and talent. He didn't chase others, he didn't want to surprise anyone. He himself is able to be surprised, moreover, to admire.

He brings poems from an unknown 16-year-old girl from the expedition. He shouts that they are brilliant. The poems are really talented. The poems are really clumsy. The girl still needs to learn. But Sasha guesses her talent and rejoices, admires.

Bit by bit, he collected the gold of the first pictures of Demutsky, the operator of the unfading Dovzhenkov "Earth". I introduced everyone to them. For many days he wrote a poem in prose about his senior colleague, the artist's unsurpassed ideal. I typed it myself, sitting at the typewriter. And if one letter was uneven in the line, he started all over again, as in penmanship.

Sasha has not made many films. The best of them is "Plea". The poet Vazha Pshavela is a Georgian classic. The director of the film Tengiz Abuladze is a Georgian film director. The operator is Ukrainian.

At the first, second and repeated viewing of the picture, the impression is that the operator draws on the screen with the thinnest brush, creates, improvises. And every time you wonder one thing: how could a Ukrainian talk about Georgia so inspiringly? Who helped him revive the stones, who made the mountain trails speak?! Who taught him to hear the music of Georgian poetry?! The answer is one: talent.

He has a lot of photos. They have been published more than once here, in Czechoslovakia, in Poland, in the GDR — everywhere where beauty is understood as love for the mother, for the land, for the Fatherland.

Antipenko's photographs are his cinematic school. While studying at VGIK, he chose for his student practice the work of a photographer in the painting "Shadows of forgotten Dreams", and a considerable part of the advertising for this wonderful film was shot by him.

Photography is for him and coaching in pauses, often long pauses, between films. These are sketches for the planned, upcoming works. Before shooting the film "Today is every Day", he came to the ballet class with a camera for many days in a row. He shot a lot, enthusiastically, comprehending the beauty of ballet, looking for a visible image of the future film. From the photos taken during a lecture by Sergei Urusevsny at VGIK, a photo film about this amazing screen artist was subsequently formed.

Photography for Antipenko is a form of communication with the life that surrounds him, with nature, with friends, with himself. Look at his photos. Feel the melodious tenderness of his soul. Smile at his smile. I am sure that you will remember the meeting with his works for a long time. Because this is a meeting with talent. в это время делать ставки на события на выводимые средства mostbet По правилам букмекера, клиента в любой момент могут попросить о верификации аккаунта