Editorials

  1. Gorsad Kiev

    Gorsad Kiev

    Gorsad Kiev is an art collective from the Ukrainian capital, consisting of three photographers devoted to exploring the raw identity of youngsters from their city. In a series of intense analog portraits and short films shot on VHS, Gorsad are able to portray the anxious energy of youth, while conveying something deeper about the essence of their environment. Although unpolitical, these explorations speak subtly of the context they were created in, a European country that has been torn by conflict for years. Gorsad Kiev truly stand out through their ability to create an intimate and honest space within photography, thus initiating a dialogue with those who are in their own words ‘difficult to get in touch with in everyday life.’ ”

    Pershe Veresnya (uk. 1st of September)

    This series of images depicts a fictitious 1st of September or 'the day we go to school.' In them we see characters from the suburbs of Kiev, often appearing inside undefined interiors and illuminated by a flash, not shying away from the camera, or from the adulthood.

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  2. Video Installation 'Moscow-NYC' by Naum Medovoy

    Video Installation 'Moscow-NYC' by Naum Medovoy

    We're excited to announce our screening of the video installation 'Moscow - NYC' by artist and filmmaker Naum Medovoy (b. 1937, Odessa), which was presented as part of  his exhibition 'The Last March' last year at the Moscow MOMA.
    Naum Medovoy (b. 1937, Odessa) is an artist and documentary filmmaker. He’s perhaps best known for his 1973 film 'The Missing' ('The Last March'), which combines World War II archival photographs and film from the Central Documentary Archive, located near Moscow, with his own 35mm footage to reveal the fate of Soviet soldiers in World War II, captured as prisoners of war. Soviet surrender codes at the time stipulated it was better to die than be held in enemy captivity, thus large swaths of servicemen in camps were deemed missing in action and left to die. When they did return to the USSR, they were considered traitors and sent to Gulag work camps. These men are considered something of a lost generation.
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  3. "Pershe Veresnya" by Gorsad Kiev

    "Pershe Veresnya" by Gorsad Kiev

    Gorsad Kiev are three photographers devoted to exploring the raw identity of today’s Ukrainian youth. 'Pershe Veresnya', 1st of September in Ukrainian, is about the day we go to school. In these analog portraits we see kids, characters from the suburbs of Kiev, often appearing inside undefined interiors and illuminated by a flash. Although unpolitical, these explorations speak subtly of the context they were created in, a European country that has been torn by conflict for years. Gorsad’s is a creative power, which aims at destroying moral untruths through their straight forward explorations of the uninhibited youth of their city. “We are not adults, but not children anymore.”
    Gorsad Kiev are three photographers devoted to exploring the raw identity of today’s Ukrainian youth.
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  4. "I Give You My Face Portrait" by Tihomir Stoyanov & Imaginary Archive

    "I Give You My Face Portrait" by Tihomir Stoyanov & Imaginary Archive

    'I Give You My Face Portrait' project takes us back to a forgotten tradition of giving each other photos with messages. In today’s digital world, these precious memories that people used to keep in their wallets prove unnecessary. This project includes 24 portraits which Tihomir Stoyanov selected among hundreds of similar photos found at the flea market. These photos were taken in the period between 1930 and 1991.
    I Give You My Face Portrait Project takes us back to a forgotten tradition of giving each other photos with messages.
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  5. "You are the Fear that I Lost" by Svitlana Levchenko

    "You are the Fear that I Lost" by Svitlana Levchenko

    'In my childhood, I often heard you are not beautiful, you are pretty’ says Odessa-born Svitlana Levchenko and continues ‘I grew up with this knowledge and it became an indisputable axiom.’
    In most cultures today, women are defined by their external beauty and the perception of female identity is being continuously distorted by a complex set of traditions, expectations, stereotypes and taboos. As women, we perceive how we’re being perceived and subconsciously impose outside limitations on our bodies and inner selves. In her recent work YatFTIL (You Are The Fear That I Lost) Odesssa-born Svitlana Levchenko looks deeper into these self-imposed prisons we create for ourselves through a series of visual metaphors and self-portraits.
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