-- photographer, professional actor and subtle connoisseur of mate tea. He had played about fifty parts in Daugavpils Drama Theatre (from Ivan the Fool to Romulus the Great) and felt bored when playing Hamlet. Arrived in Riga, capital of Latvia, already being a photo journalist what is understandable if one looks at his genealogy: one of his grandfathers was a war photo correspondent, another one was a pilot who used to took pictures from the bird's eye view.