Still Alive is a photography blog of ideas and inspiration for everyone interested in more than just pressing the shutter button of their camera. The purpose of this blog is to show you that you don’t need to spend months or even years in a school of the arts in order to be able to make an artistic presentation of your creative work. Everything I share with you HERE is simple and EASY to do, is available for everyone and does not require any special gifts, skills or extraordinary talents.

“A refreshing break for professional photographers and inspiration for beginners who long to color outside the lines. “    The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter Issue #191

“Nitsa is a photographic interpreter of people in the urban scene. Her work is published via world wide web, printed books, and periodic framed print exhibits. Much of it, though capturing both human subject and urban setting, does not center upon either but rather the interplay between them. Elements of paradox and surprise are often strong. “  David Morgan, Los Angeles 2005
 

Photography related information:

• Photography location: the big cities of America
• Photography style: non-photography (no rules. street photography)
• Photography education: none
• Influences: none
• Began to photograph: 2000
• Why: To challenge the superficial myth of Los Angeles
• Objective: searching for the real America
• Future goal: photographing and documenting life in every major city in the US.
• Camera: whatever
• Recommended photography books: none
• Books by Nitsa:

  I AM NOT AN ARTIST – Unconventional and creative photography (2008)
  No rules. street photography (2007)
  Streets of Los Angeles
  Streets of New York
  Streets of America
  The real L.A.
  Coloring the streets
  The streets are alive

• Shows: Stir Crazy and Insomnia in Los Angeles
• Selling Nitsa’s books: BookSoup on Sunset blvd., Hennessey & Ingalls in Santa Monica, Lulu.com, Amazon.com
• Featured in:
  What Digital Camera (UK, Feb 2001 in print),
  Yahoo! picks (April 2002),
  USA Today (Hot sites April 2002 in print and online),
  kmsp TV (2002),
  St. Petersburg Times (May 2002),
  Apogee Photo Magazine (2001) ,
  Photo Box (2002) ,
  Hyde Park Review of books Magazine (Winter 2002),
  eDreams USA 2003,
  Photoblogs Magazine (March 2005),
  LA.com newsletter (2003),
  McLean Photography club (May 2002),
  The cool tricks and trinkets newsletter (April 2002 and December 2002),
  ZoneZero Magazine (2000),
  Mantis Magazine (June 2002),
  convergence magazine (Spring 2005),
  Sony Imagestation/ site track (2003)
  Times Journal of Photography (April 2006, feature story [print]),