The Novosibirsk fours, born in April, had a professional photo session - photographer Elena Mikhailovskaya managed to take pictures of the babies in just two hours.
“Working with kids involves certain difficulties, but we worked as a well-coordinated team and understood each other perfectly. In our team we have Sergey Martynov from Moscow, Sasha Kireeva from Kazan and me. The kids were filmed in record time - two hours. They are "scops": they slept all the time. Usually, newborns are photographed within 3-5 hours,”said photographer Elena Mikhailova.
Elena Mikhailovskaya has been photographing young children for 4 years now, and she has been photographing babies only of a certain age - from 5 days to 13 months. Shooting a quadruple for Mikhailovskaya is not a record - the photographer said that in October 2017 she flew to Vladivostok for a photo session with fives.
The mother of fours Marina Steklova admitted that at first she was worried about how the children would weigh themselves at the photo session - but everything went surprisingly easily.
“I was just an observer. The guys took it upon themselves: they turned on the "white noise", and shook, and fed, did everything. For two and a half hours, they put the children to sleep - they slept all the time. I was worried that they would be capricious, but everything went perfectly. We even changed them several times,”Marina Steklova told NGS.
Katerina, Ivan, Alena and Polina were born to 32-year-old Marina Steklova on April 13, 2018, although at first, according to her mother, the doctors thought she would have twins.
Marina Steklova's husband Dmitry Kozlov works as a manager. Grandmothers and grandfathers help Marina to work with children every day. The couple has a one-room apartment on a mortgage. The administration of the Kalininsky district promised to compensate part of the cost of food and diapers, and the mayor's office offered to provide the family with a three-room municipal apartment for rent on preferential terms.
“At first I was, of course, shocked. To be honest, I didn't even know before that such cases happen. And now we are glad. And everyone admires, envies us - acquaintances, strangers, at work, and just in social networks,”laughs Marina Steklova.