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Tatiana was born in the family of renowned landscape artist Vladimir Slepukhin. She first received art lessons from her father at the age of 4 and since has used many different media for her art.
Tatiana took further training in arts in the best European tradition – she studied painting, sculpture and sketching in a specialized arts school in St.-Petersburg, Russia.
Tatiana started seriously pursuing photography at the age of 11. She spent many magical moments under the light of the red lamp in her small lab. Still being a child, she quickly learned to estimate the exposure settings without using any metering system, but simply by looking at the existing light.
Tatiana temporarily suspended her pursuit of visual arts and started favouring piano studies more and more - only to return later to pursue oil painting and photography again with renewed passion.
Tatiana is a published photographer and a mentor for the Photographic Society of America. She takes pleasure in contributing to the community by publishing articles and doing presentations on night photography and light painting for photographic organizations and clubs across Canada.
She is a leader in the light painting research and she has vouched to bring this venue of photography to a new altitude.
Tatiana traveled with her equipment to the Guatemala jungle to light-paint the Mayan ruins. She spent a week in haunted mining ghost towns in Montana and chased Northern lights all the way to James Bay. She spent many nights in the Canadian Rockies, photographed abandoned churches on the Alberta prairies, and explored ghost towns in Saskatchewan. She photographed at night surrounded by coyotes, bears, tarantulas and jaguars. There are no limits in her in a search for a great subject.
When she photographs her subjects under the moon, the long exposures provide an opportunity that goes beyond just documenting night scenery. Tatiana light-paints her subjects in real life. The moonlit landscapes are her canvas, and the portable lights are her brushes. She plays with the colours of gels like a painter would mix paints on a palette.
She currently resides in Ottawa, Canada.
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