{"id":142,"date":"2024-04-11T15:48:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:22:58","slug":"master-clown-oleg-popov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/master-clown-oleg-popov\/","title":{"rendered":"Master clown Oleg Popov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u2018Life is like a forest, you can never go straight ahead\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Oleg Konstantinovitsj Popov 1930-2016
Master Clown of the Russian state circus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oleg Popov, the master clown in his dressing room is getting ready for a performance (1990).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had the pleasure of photographing Popov, a warm and witty man \u2014 understated, yet a father figure to me. I was just 19, fearless and uninhibited, when Popov gave me the opportunity to photograph the Russian State Circus, both outside and behind the scenes. I couldn\u2019t have wished for a better start to my career as a photojournalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes you need ‘accelerators’ in your life to help you on your way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Enisoor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a clown, my goal is to create joy, not laughter for its own sake! – Oleg Popov<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Life is like a forest, you can never go straight ahead\u2019 Oleg Konstantinovitsj Popov 1930-2016Master Clown of the Russian state circus Oleg Popov, the master clown in his dressing room is getting ready for a performance (1990). I had the pleasure of photographing Popov, a warm and witty man \u2014 understated, yet a father figure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[622,652,14,13],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portrait","tag-circus","tag-circuslife","tag-olegpopov","tag-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enisoor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}