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"Challenging and provocative, the photographs by Ukrainian photographer Boris MIKHAILOV document human casualties living in post communist Eastern Europe after the demise of the Soviet Union. They are unflinching and ruthless depictions of poverty and the homeless (also known as Bomzhes) living in the margins of Russia's new economic regime without social support or care. His photographs, often presented in these wry even humorous situations, only add to the absurdity of this tragic life. The onlooker experiences feelings of empathy and disgust as they guiltily absorb the content of these engaging yet horrifying pictures, peering into an unknown world of madness, destitution, longing and death in an un-redemptive portrait of outcast humanity.Content
The series in the photo volume called 'The Wedding' by Boris MIKHAILOV presents a simulated wedding between two homeless people often naked and in sexual poses, set amongst their own surroundings. The book is bound in imitation of a traditional wedding album, with faux-leather and gold-debossed lettering designed by calligrapher John Stevens.It is further finished off with a text by Adrian Searle." (© Morel Books, 2010)
About Ukranian photographer, Boris MIKHAILOV (b.1938, in Kharkov)
Photo books by and on the work of Boris MIKHAILOV
- Book design
- John STEVENS
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., 57 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies