Grigori Galitsin

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Grigori Aleksandrovich Galitsin (Russian: Григорий Александрович Галицын) (1957 in Razdelnaya, Ukraine, then USSR - ) is a Russian photographer known for his photography and videos portraying nude young women.

1 Biography
2 Books
3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Galitsin studied classical painting in Leningrad. However, he turned to photography. His first camera, an early Leica model, was given to him by his grandfather who purchased it from German army in 1947. By 1998, Galitsin started to present his photography through Internet. He became best known with his work for MET (Most Erotic Teens) website, the predecessor of MET-ART, and also for DOMAI.

In 2002, he launched the website galitsin-archives.com with the assistance of his wife Irina Aleksandrovna Pischasova (originally a MET model known as "Valentina") as a joint project with Ukrainian-based photographer Petter Hegre. Due to a conflict, Galitsin established his exclusive website galitsin-news.com in 2004, the former domain confiscated by Hegre ^[1] . He further presented the sister website nud-art.com in 2006. Galitsin sites featured mainly amateur models from Volgograd Oblast among whom was Galitsin's favourite model "Alice" but also some professionals he usually shot in Moscow and occasionally, established porn models like Yulia Streletskaya, Valeria Nemchenko, Olya Maklakova, Svetlana Belochkina. "Julia" and "Koika" (Maria Kuznetsova), popular models he knew from MET were also found.

On September 17, 2006, Galitsin and his wife were arrested in Volgograd^[2]. On October 26, he petitioned the Russian president Vladimir Putin, declaring he was accused of alleged breach of Russian Criminal Code Art. 242.1 ("Manufacturing and dissemination of materials or objects containing pornographic images of minors") and asked for attention on his trial^[3]. As of 2007, Galitsin is still imprisoned and his websites are defunct.