I rarely shoot a straight up portrait like this. However, this time it just seemed right. Not as an iconic image, and not my style, but simply as an appreciation for this exquisite face. I made many photographs of the rather shy Dasha , from the Ukraine, shooting pool, playing with her friends on the beach etc., yet for some reason this straight up shot in broad daylight on the Avalon fishing pier seems to stick..Dasha worked at a miniature golf course, Galaxy Golf, in the outer banks as part of a foreign student exchange summer work program. I think Dasha will return this summer. I hope so. Miniature golf anyone?
Galaxy Golf clubhouse closed in winter
Women from the former Soviet Union can be so stunning. I photographed sisters a couple of years ago who were from Siberia, here studying. They were utterly amazingly beautiful to look at.
Not really a typical DAH photo, but yet somehow, it is.
GORDON
the propaganda i got growing up about the Communist Soviets did not include Dasha
Yes, more likely the huge sturdy women with missing teeth shouldering logs.