GOLOVCHENKO, Kirill - Bitter Honeydew

Because of that 'Bitter Honeydew' has got the European Publishers Award for Photography 2014 the series were published therefore simultaneously and in the same format at four European publishers (Dewi Lewis, Kehrer, Image and Manouevres, Peliti Associati) you can get this book in diefferent languages (German, English, Frenchh & Italian - please precise your order, thank you.

"In the summer months, little markets rise up along the Ukrainian freeways that usually consist of individual, simply made fruit and vegetable stands. Some of the vendors stay overnight, putting up tents or small wooden shacks, or they live with their families in trailers.
Their nighttime labors are the theme of the series 'Bitter Honeydew' by the photographer Kirill GOLOVCHENKO.

Not only the locals set up their stands on the side of the road. During the warm season, vendors also flock here from the margins of the former Soviet Union, from Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia. They all bring different customs and traditions with them, forming a microcosm in which diverse personalities are united by a single pursuit: making money in order to raise their standard of living, or simply to escape hunger.
In emphatic portraits, 'Bitter Honeydew' documents the street vendors’ daily struggle for survival.

The series was awarded the Abisag-TÜLLMANN-Award in 2013." (publisher's note, © Kehrer Verlag, 2015)

More photobooks by photographer, Kirill GOLOVCHENKO, are:
'7 Km. Field of Wonder' (2010),
'Totalniy Futbol - A Polish-Ukrainian Football Tour' (2012)
'Kachalka' (2012),
'Arbeitsbuch / Labour book' (2015)


About the photographer, Kirill GOLOVCHENKO (b. 1974 in Odessa):
Kirill GOLOVCHENKO studied communication design at the University of Darmstadt.
Kirill GOLOVCHENKO 2003 (together with Andrea DIEFENBACH) was awarded the Abisag TÜLLMANN Prize for his documentary work.
For his diploma thesis '7km - Field of Wonders' he receives the award for documentary photography of the Wüstenrot Foundation 2007/2008 as well as numerous prizes and awards.
The promotion prize documentary photography of the Wüstenrot Foundation 2007/2008, the DAAD Art Fellowship and VG Bild- Kunst Projektförderung enable him to complete further photo projects in the Ukraine.

Kirill GOLOVCHENKO's photographic works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad since 2003, including Uferhallen Berlin, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Photokina Cologne, Kunstverein Bad Aibling, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Photo Espana Madrid, Städtische Galerie Brunsbüttel, Photomuseum Braunschweig.