Grigori Galitsin

Grigori Aleksandrovich Galitsin (Russian: Григорий Александрович Галицын, Sci: "Grigorij Aleksandrovič Galicyn"; also known as A. Obolenski [ [http://www.photoforum.ru/user/104/index.en.html "Photographer A. Obolenski"] , "Photoforum.ru", February 13, 2001. Accessed June 4, 2007.] [http://volgogradinform.ru/kriminal/776.html "Рядом с Вечным огнем в Волгограде снимали обнаженных подростков"] ("Naked Teenagers Filmed near the Eternal Flame in Volgograd"), "Volgograd Inform", October 13, 2006. ru icon] ) (1957 in Razdelnaya, Ukraine, then USSR) is a Russian erotic photographer and porn director.

Biography

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. [http://www.hermansky-books.com/index.php?section=detail&groupname=nudes&id=galitsins_angels "Galitsin's Angels"] (book official website), "Hermansky-Books.com", 2006.] In 1997, he was recipient of a Master Kodak Exhibition award. [http://www.archives.name/grigori-galitsin.htm "Grigori Galitsin - Erotic Photographer"] , "Teen Nudes Archives" (website).]

In 1996, Galitsin, who by then had established himself primarily as an erotic photographer based in Volgograd, began providing content to an early Internet adult website. In 1998, he became the main content provider for the newly-founded adult website, Most Erotic Teens (the predecessor of MET-ART), and also provided content for another adult site, DOMAI. [http://www.master-x.com/forum/topics/75939/page/0/ "Письмо Григория Галицына Президенту РФ"] ("Letter from Grigori Galitsin to the President of the Russian Federation") (reposted by erotella), "Master-X.com", December 19, 2006 ru icon] In 2002, he left MET and launched the website Galitsin-Archives as a joint project with Norwegian photographer Petter Hegre. Due to a conflict with Hegre in 2004, Galitsin ended Galitsin-Archives and established his own website Galitsin-News. [http://web.archive.org/web/20040605133413/www.galitsin-news.com/newsletter.php?id=2 "This is explanations concerning a situation with galitsin-archives.com"] by Grigori Galitsin, "Galitsin-News.com", March 26, 2004. (Archived at Wayback Machine, June 5, 2004.) "Note: if page fails to load quickly, manually stop the browser from loading."] Galitsin also started the sister website Nud-Art in 2006.

The majority of Galitsin's photos and videos were shot in the Volgograd area, and sometimes in hotels in Moscow as well. Galitsin's apartment (the former home of poet Margarita Agashina and former Volgograd mayor Yuri Chekov) doubled as a high-tech porn studio. His activity as a pornographer was largely unknown to his neighbors, though he was noted around Volgograd for his expensive lifestyle.

Occasionally he would travel abroad with his models to countries like Egypt and India to shoot on location there. [http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/July/subcontinent_July75.xml&section=subcontinent "Massage parlour figure in porn site"] by Devasia, "Khaleej Times", July 3, 2006.] 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.

On September 17, 2006, Galitsin and his wife Irina Aleksandrovna Pischasova (who was also one of his models, appearing under the name "Valentina") were arrested in Volgograd, [http://volgogradinform.ru/kriminal/748.html "В Волгограде арестована преступная группа, распространявшая порно через Интернет"] ("Criminal group arrested in Volgograd for distributing porn on the Internet"), "Volgograd Inform", October 9, 2006. ru icon] accused of violating Russian Criminal Code ("Coercion [through blackmail] to commit a sexual act") and ("Manufacturing and dissemination of materials or objects containing pornographic images of minors"). On October 26, he petitioned the Russian president Vladimir Putin and asked for intervention on his behalf. According to a second letter to Putin drafted in May 2007, Galitsin was still in custody awaiting trial. Pischasova was also once again taken into custody in March. [http://kinoklubnichka.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=131 Жалоба фотографа Григория Галицына Президенту РФ В.В. Путину] ("Complaint by photographer Grigori Galitsin to the President of the Russian Federation, V.V. Putin") (reposted by admin), "kinoklubnichka.ru forum", May 18, 2007. ru icon]

Photography and videos

Galitsin specialized in barely legal or lolita pornography. He also produced erotic videos for his websites and eventually DVDs as well. The majority of his models were young Russian women in their late teens to early twenties. Many of his models are well-known Russian glamour models, but he also had a number of models who worked exclusively for him, often for years at a time.

His work usually consists of softcore nude photography, though some sets and videos cross over into hardcore pornography, typically depicting masturbation, lesbian activity, or urination. [ [http://www.hqpornspots.com/galitsin-news/index.php "Galitsin News"] , "HQPornSpots.com", August 11, 2005. Accessed October 1, 2007.] [ [http://www.honestpornreviews.com/galitsin-news/Review.cfm "Galitsin News"] by Neska, "Honest Porn Reviews" (website), April 25, 2006. Accessed October 1, 2007.] [ [http://www.adultsitesurfer.com/review/grigori-galitsin-news/index.html "Grigori Galitsin News Review"] by Furry Monster, "Adult Site Surfer" (website), November 22, 2006. Accessed June 4, 2007.]

Books

"Galitsin's Angels: From Russia with Love". Munich: Edition Reuss. 2005. ISBN 3-934020-34-8

References

External links

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* [http://www.archives.name/grigori-galitsin.htm "Grigori Galitsin - Erotic Photographer"] , "Teen Nudes Archives" (website). – biographical info
* [http://www.volga34.ru/news/2412/ "В Волгограде закрыта порностудия"] ("Porn studio closed in Volgograd"), "Volga34.ru", October 5, 2006. ru icon
* [http://www.trud.ru/issue/article.php?id=200705245880601 "Подайте Порнуху, Фотограф Галицын"] by Alexander Osipov, "Trud7", May 24, 2007. ru icon
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060428095227/www.galitsin-news.com/ Galitsin-News.com] (archived at Wayback Machine, April 28, 2006)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20031204085103/www.galitsin-archives.com/index.php Galitsin-Archives.com] (archived at Wayback Machine, December 4, 2003)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060425045850/http://mobile-erotica.net/ Mobile-Erotica.net] (archived at Wayback Machine, April 25, 2006)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060424133435/http://www.galitsin.net/ Galitsin.net] (archived at Wayback Machine, April 24, 2006)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060516231022/http://www.galitsin.avtlg.ru/ Galitsin.avtlg.ru] (archived at Wayback Machine, May 16, 2006)
* [http://www.thenude.eu/pts_Grigori_Galitsin_95.htm Galitsin MET-Art Cover-Archive] , "TheNude.eu".
* [http://www.galitsin-nudes.com/russian-models.html Galitsin-Nudes.com] – Features biographies of Galitsin's models.
* [http://www.galitsinfilm.com/ Galistinfilm.com] – "Official" source for Galitsin DVDs.