The author describes the main idea of the project as follows: “This is a feature film with the action taking place back in the 1920’s – 1940’s squeezed in a single frame”. But the frame is capacious enough to express the entire content of the film, the style of the work and, whatever the scene might be, the psychological essence and personality of the characters.

The monochromatic-gamma photo portraits of authors, actresses, ballerinas, artists and photographers provide an insight into two persons at the same time, that is, the image of the character of the film on the one hand, and the image of the performer on the other.

From the author’s standpoint all the characters of this series are not just beautiful women, but also personalities who excel in different areas of art and other spheres of intellectual activity. They all are Vladimir’s muses boosting his stamina as a creative person.

One more important issue: it is never easy to convey an emotional state emerged between the photographer and his model, namely, the state of dialogue, those elusive live links and fluids, which materializing at a later stage gain the dimensions and tangibility clearly distinguished in the texture of the photos. No doubt, the author succeeded brilliantly in this respect.

The Film Diva series presents many dual portraits, such as that of the ballerina Ilze Liepa posing as Ida Rubinstein, a cult figure in Russian art at the beginning of last century; Katya Mtseturidze, a film critic, styled as Vera Kholodnaya, a film actress starring at the early days of Russian cinema, and also Renata Litvinova, a film director, actress and script writer, in the image of a woman in art at the time of Third Reich.

Such an artistic approach permits the author to saturate the frame with a quite extraordinary meaning and create a memorable visual image, which draws psychological portraits of women who are depicted on the photos and those the type of whom they convey, both being equally talented.