In short about me
My name is Matthäus (Matthew) Parshchikov. I was born in 2006 and I’m based in Cologne, Germany. I study earth sciences at the university of Bonn.
I collect minerals from exclusively post-Soviet countries. I photograph minerals professionally since 2023, initially to access a wider, more beautiful variety of specimens to show the world. Now I’m fascinated by the people I meet, their mineral stories. Also, I love smiling customers.
My work has been published in multiple magazines like Rocks & Minerals, extraLapis, Mineralogical Almanac, Mineralica as well as the Munich Show 2024 themebook and you can see my photos in many more different places, like the advertisement banner for mindat.org in Mineral City and on flyers for the London and Paris mineral show.
I am also part of the social media and outreach committee at the nonprofit organization, Young Mineral Collectors, where I host the interview program “Under the Radar”.
A paragraph about my friends
The following people are those who inspire me to collect and photograph, share their valuable time and knowledge with me and are the most awesome people you could imagine who I value highly. Thank you for being amazing friends and joining me on this journey.
Thank you, Maestro Igor Chepikov, for my first camera and teaching me the basics of photography!
Thank you, my friends László Kupi and Fabian Wildfang who are with me since the beginning and are mentoring me in the art of photography and collecting!
Thank you, Albert Russ, Ksenia Levterova, Vadym Levterov, Gerhard Wagner, Jeff Mason and Adrien Sautier who keep sharing their wisdom with me and are amazing friends!
Thank you, my friend Filip Despic for designing this fabulous website!
And of course, thank you, all my other mineral friends and clients! You are the best!