Jobs: "If you are always afraid of something, there is no life" - an interview with Vitaly Rufer Raskalovym

Vitaly, Rufer - this is your main job? How did this you can make money?

Not certainly in that way. The money I earn in the photographs, advertising, shooting, collaboration with brands, exhibitions. But this resulted in my class - the roof.

How it all started, first whether the roof remember? How did you know that polezesh there again?

It began seven years ago in Moscow. I bought my first camera, I just had the desire start taking pictures. First I filmed completely ordinary things. All that photograph lovers at the beginning of creation. And then by chance friends took me to the roof. There I realized that it was wow, I want to shoot the city from a different perspective, to see all the top things that are not visible at the bottom.

Now these frames are buying well-known companies and brands. Be sure to climb up, to make the picture, which will buy the BBC or Canon?

If we talk about the BBC, the picture should cause a public outcry. To shoot something extraordinary: a celebrity in an unusual situation or the president. Or get into a place where no one was.

Why climb onto the roof at all? For emotion, adrenaline?

Now it is commerce, and were first drive and passion. There were other Rufer were the competition, who is the best, who was the first to climb the building complex. Adrenaline and now left, but it's not because the adrenalin and scary high, but because I was breaking the law and face guards.

By the way, about the guards. During penetration of the guards punished the object up to and including termination. You do not feel sorry for them?

I have a dual attitude towards this. If I was able to get through, so bad security. On the other hand, I really feel sorry for them. And sometimes ashamed in front of these people. With me are often associated companies from Russia and Korea, was asked to tell when I get into the lens, in order to understand what the change worked.

I'll never tell, because I know that it threatens people with dismissal. Therefore, we never have the date on the photo and rollers. I am ashamed that people lose their jobs because of me, it sucks.

What do you give it a hobby?

I enjoyed my lesson when I just climbed on the roof. Like now, it has become just make money. And I'm glad that I earn through a hobby: doing what I like, and I get paid. Really cool.

I have been in places in which no one was. For example, the highest building - Shanghai Tower in China. But the most difficult was the Lotte World Tower in Seoul.

You write other Rufer, fans, ask advice?

Write asked their opinion, but I'm not a big fan of online communication. If I meet on the street, happy to communicate, maybe even become friends.

In general, I hate the internet.

We have to maintain social networks, publish something, because that audience is growing. And what it is, the higher the chances that you will offer the project. This is the only work that I do not like.

How many hours per day allocated to the social sphere?

In the evening, I sit down and think, damn it, it is necessary to sit for two hours. But not every night. It all depends on my mood, sometimes do not take the phone in hand for a long time.

My favorite method of communication - mail, I love it. There is no empty idle talk.

You sat down and wrote a letter and received a special response.

You've got a lot of expensive travel, and no one gives you an advance and paid on schedule. How you control the finances?

I earn enough to pay for the trip. For example, recently I entered into a contract, and it so happened that I was paid for the year ahead, a year can do nothing. But I have still a lot of offers. It is unstable, sometimes for a month can earn more than a year, sometimes for three months without pay.

Of course, I do not have a family and children. If I had them, I would have to radically change their lives. But while I cell, can enjoy what's happening around.

How much time is spent on planning your trips and climbing?

Not much, but sometimes develop a trip for 6 months. We plan to travel, buy tickets. And on the very location of up to five days, depending on the location.

Often there are situations when it is not clear how to get to the roof. We climbed in Brazil at the statue of Christ the Savior. A door to get inside, is on the podium before him 9 meters. No rope to throw anything. We searched the area and found the statue under the stairs, which was just 10 meters - the workers left.

At night we returned to the place and took it. At this time there was a football match played in Brazil. And all the guards watched football. They're all fans and obsessed with football. We had two hours when no one was looking at us.

This is the same luck: staircase and football. Think more stairs is not there.

How do you buy tickets where they are looking for?

There is SkyScanner. And there Tricks. One example will give: if you fly from Asia, such as flight Shanghai - Moscow, it will be a straight line. Typically, it costs 20 thousand rubles. But there is a flight Shanghai - Berlin, which flies via Moscow. He is already not 20, and 12 thousand. The difference is big, because companies want to fill the flights and to attract more foreign customers. It is cheaper direct flight, but you can safely leave in Moscow and Berlin did not fly.

How to cope with jet lag?

I have to Layfhakera special hack. If you are flying from east to west, to quickly integrate into the time zone, it is necessary to take an evening flight and the night before the flight to sleep no more than four hours to the plane slashed.

I recently flew from Auckland to Moscow, spent in airplanes 24 hours, so did he. Fell asleep at 9:00, then another transplant and flights have landed in Moscow at 23 o'clock and went to bed, I woke up this morning. And I do not feel any change of time zones. You just need the night to not sleep.

What's in your bag when you travel?

Three passport (I have a lot of visas), a bank card, the MacBook, phone, two cameras and a drone. Without a tripod is still fit in a small backpack.

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The mountains also climb without insurance?

If you need insurance, then I'll use it. If not - I will not. Insurance is really a burden, on the roofs, you can always climb without insurance. My approach is this: if I doubt their abilities, then I will not do that. If I understand, it's too far off for me or too dangerous, then I stand back and find another way to bypass.

You train specifically? Behaving healthy lifestyle, eat right?

Previously, yes, now just run, the press shake, squeeze. With age come and proper nutrition.

When did you realize that it's time to take care of yourself?

Just I started watching what I eat. It's like the olives begin to love. As a child, you hate them, but 20 do you like them. Just decided that we should have a normal meal, healthy, because the food - a very important element.

That's what upsets me in Russia and in Moscow - with a healthy diet is a big problem. That compared with countries such as New Zealand or European countries.

Would you like to settle in some place?

Like Hong Kong, New York, but that city, in which only the energetic young man can live. I think that I would be there could not reside in old age. Moscow on the dynamics and tempo like them. Like Paris, because it is the dvizhovy city in Europe, there is at least something is happening. Kiev I also really like. Vienna - a cool city, calm and pleasant, but there too there are events.

China - a great country, but angry. Especially people. It's funny, but I find they have a lot of similarity with the Russian. Rough, harsh, inhospitable, drink. There is a list of the worst tourists in the world in the first place the Chinese and Russian.

Where good people?

Europe polite, but it's superficial.

Notice the difference that in Russia it is possible to catch the sullen looks, it's not made to smile and dance in the street to the subway. It is perceived as nonsense. But it is worth to a man to drink, you will be the best friends in five minutes. In the West, it's different. All are friendly and have fun, but beyond that they will not be allowed, not unfold.

But I prefer the Western approach, in which more respect. This can be seen not in the way they communicate, this can be seen on the road, and in many areas of life.

I ride a motorcycle in Moscow, there are cut, not inferior. And if I get up in New Zealand at the traffic lights in front of someone, I would be ashamed. And all the people will look at me and think, "What an idiot?"

Do you have a theory about why this is happening?

It's precisely because people treat each other with disrespect. And this is reflected already in the whole.

What books and films advise readers Layfhakera?

Movies:

1. Gattaca.
2. Lord of War.
3. Manchester by the Sea.
4. Prestige.
5. Big hopes. I'm not sure that everyone will like it, but the movie is good.

I can name two that have influenced me the most of the books:

• «Hero of our time"Mikhail Lermontov. It Pechorin and his attitude to life. Trying to find him similarities when I read a book.
• «The Moon and Sixpence"Somerset Maugham. Struck by the will of the protagonist. They moved the force with which he could not cope. A strong man who was unhappy because he could not control it.

It is assumed that you get tired of sitting on the roof? The zaymoshsya?

I plan to develop myself as a director or operator. I will shoot video, short films, music videos, maybe even a movie.

When I started roofs and filming, I did not know who I'll be in the future. I had a choice: to go to university, to be engaged in what I'm not sure, or do what he likes, which lay the heart. I made very good choices when left the university and began working in the tower "Federation", and it led me to what I was doing. Now I know what I want to do next.

As you study this new business? What are you reading, watching?

I always did what I wanted. I'm just a lot of trial independently. If I like it - continues. For example, I do not consider myself a photographer. Everyone tells me that I have a hideous picture, and eventually I became the advertising face of the largest manufacturer of photo equipment in the world.

The main criterion - only your attitude to what happens?

Exactly. Naturally, each soul wants to be recognized. But I do not particularly think about the popularity and how to earn money. Interesting projects receive almost free myself if I know that for them will not be ashamed.

How do you plan to go for the shooting?

You just need to start. When I begin, I will be understanding. Maybe, I will think that it's not mine or disappointed. I set a goal to try new things.

Not everyone can here so just go and do something, they are afraid. What do they advise?

I understand that feeling, I felt it a thousand times. When there is an opportunity to kiss a stranger in Paris Notre Dame, but you do not, because I was scared.

At some point you have to say to yourself, let it be, that is, we must try. If you are always afraid of something, there will be no life.

And still there procrastination. When it appears, you just have to step over themselves, to gather his thoughts and say, "I'll do anything." Think less about what happened. About anything do not regret, just try it. Around a lot of opportunities that we did not know, and maybe it's exactly what you'll do for the rest of life.

I'm easy to talk to, and I know that many people think, "Easy for you to say, you do your thing."

But I had moments when I realized that I do not so clearly. I succumbed to desire, it led me to something good.