I thought that I shot all locations from all sides in my small city of Togliatti. It was April 2019 when Vlad and I arrived at the Saturn Cinema, which was abandoned a long time ago and now is a monument of Soviet architecture. Vlad showed me potential spots for tricks. But after having such a big experience in Moscow all these locations seemed pretty trivial to me. When we chose the place of shooting, I took out the camera and decided to put the backpack aside and suddenly I noticed an old empty pool with rusty fountains which hadn’t worked since the times of the USSR ... I asked Vlad if he knows how to do a “footjam tailwhip” on a fanbox. He said “yes” so I got the copter out and took a picture of a real trick in a non-existent location.
Alexey Shabanov

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Biography
I was born and raised in the small city of Togliatti. After graduating from a technical college as an electrician, I got a job at the Volga Automobile Plant and was able to buy my first camera. Every weekend my friends and I went to the country park to go snowboarding. At that moment photography became more interesting to me than snowboarding. Later I started wakeboarding and I made new friends in that field. Now I took pictures not only in winter, but also in summer. Some time later I was noticed in the local media and was offered to work as a full-time photographer in the speedway club - “Mega Lada”. Here I worked for 4 years and finally I decided that I should move on. In 2014 I moved to Moscow and in a few months I won the Russian Wake Awards in the category "Photographer of the Year". Same awards I got in 2015 and 2017.
At the moment I live in Moscow and take part in all the significant sports and extreme events in Russia.