Georgiy Mstislavovich Kolosov
Born in 1945, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Energetics, faculty of electronics (has forgotten all of it).

Photographing as a living — since 1976. A new “alma mater” — a photo club “Novator”.

Photographer; professor; participant and curator of exhibitions; chairman of competitions’ juries; author of articles; chairman of editorial boards; photo editor; inventor and manufacturer of soft-focus lenses (uses only this kind of optics and has gained many people over to a cause); researcher of N.P. Andreyev’s work, co-founder of the Center named after him; ideologist (so they say) of the modern pictorialism; full member of the Union of the Russian photographers-artists.
In reality: palmer, parishioner, beadle (like a running dog!).

Heritage:
“Russian North” (1980—1991) — architecture, genre pieces, portraits — about 100 photos.
“Let every thing that hath breath…” (1992—1995) — the world of nature close — about 40 photos.
“Wonderworker” (1993—2003) — Religious procession at the Velikaya River (Vyatka) — 90 photos.
“Portraits” (1979—2003) — portraits, has not counted them.
And several strange series:
“Labyrinth of spirit”; “Valaam 2000 during the Easter Week”; “Smoke of time”, “Indeed risen!”; “Beauty is saving the world” (terrible).
Represented (deep in storages) at the Russian Museum (Saint-Petersburg), at the National Library of France (Paris) and on walls of good people’s apartments.