Grigori Galitsin
Grigori Aleksandrovich Galitsin (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Гали́цын, Sci: Grigorij Aleksandrovič Galicyn; also known as A. Obolenski[1][2]) (1957 – 13 November 2021) was a Russian erotic photographer.
Biography
Career
Galitsin studied classical painting in Leningrad, but later turned to photography. His first camera, an early Leica model, was given to him by his grandfather who purchased it from the German army in 1947.[3] Occasionally he would travel abroad with his models to countries like Egypt and India to shoot on location there.[4][5] In 2006, Galitsin filmed and photographed several models at some beach resorts and Ayurvedic massage parlours in Varkala and Papanasam, India. Indian police later became aware of the resulting videos, which had been posted on Galitsin-News, and conducted raids on a number of Varkala massage parlours on suspicion of illegal activity.
Arrest
As of October 2014, Galitsin, Irina, and their two children had relocated to Kalachyovsky District, where he invested his life savings in an "experimental farm". Here, Galitsin bred and raised rare breed pigs and chickens, notably Mangalica pigs. He was no longer active in professional photography, other than as documentation of his farming operation and family life.[6]
Books
- Galitsin's Angels: From Russia with Love. Munich: Edition Reuss. 2005. ISBN 3-934020-34-8.
References
- ↑ "Photographer A. Obolenski". PhotoForum.ru. February 13, 2001. Retrieved June 4, 2007.
- ↑ "Рядом с Вечным огнем в Волгограде снимали обнаженных подростков" Archived 2007-04-18 at the Wayback Machine ("Naked Teenagers Filmed near the Eternal Flame in Volgograd"), Volgograd Inform, October 13, 2006. (in Russian)
- ↑ "Galitsin's Angels" (book official website), Hermansky-Books.com, 2006.
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- ↑ Счастье фермерства. Волгоградский фотохудожник променял моделей на хрюшек ("Cultivating happiness: Volgograd photographer traded models for pigs") by Sergei Novitski. Volgograd Argumenty i Fakty weekly #50, October 12, 2014 (posted on web November 12, 2014). (in Russian)