Dmitrii Komarov was born in Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg now), USSR in 1985. He has Master’s degree and PhD of Engineering and has been working on different engineering and managerial jobs for a manufacturing company. He lived in Saint-Petersburg until 2014 and then moved to Nizhny Novgorod. At the same time he was self-learning cinematography and adjacent arts since 2000 and practiced non-commercial photography.