Sasha Photography

Description

My name is Sasha Yevelev. Photography is deeply embedded in my past. Almost 30 years ago, my family and I came to the United States from the former Soviet Union. After heroically surviving World War 2, my grandfather had been a professional portrait photographer for over 50 years. To support our family in America, my father, who had apprenticed in my grandfather’s studio, picked up a heavy JVC video camera and worked as a videographer at weddings, spending countless nights editing footage. I would often stay up late and watch my dad work, so I saw hundreds of weddings before I ever picked up a camera myself.

Given such a family history, it seemed inevitable that I would be drawn down the same path. I started photographing in high school, as a photojournalist for my school paper, and continued taking pictures in college, at UC Berkeley, always the designated photographer in my group of friends. After college, I invested in my first professional digital camera (DSLR). While working in the business world, I started shooting weddings as an assistant to a prominent Bay Area photographer, and quickly went on to do my own professional wedding work.