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Background information
Self-published in an edition of only 100 copies, the photo book 'Obval / Crash. 2014-2015' by Ukrainian photographer Kirill GOLOVCHENKO refers to a development in his home country Ukraine. There, the Ukrainian currency 'Hryvnia' lost so much value in the last 20 years, that this amounted to a crash. The answer of the photographer is his self-published book. The word 'OBVAL', derived from the term 'OBmin VALut' used in exchange offices, means - translated into English - 'crash', i.e.: accident, crash, or similar.
Kiril GOLOVCHENKO has been documenting his Ukrainian homeland and its people for 10 years now; while his books '7km' (2010) 'Kachalka' (2012) or even 'Bitter honeydew' (2015) also show humorous observations, his last self-published titles, 'Arbeitsbuch' and just 'OBVAL' are of a more serious nature. The images in this slim, fully illustrated publication are bathed in deep red, the same red that prevails in currency exchange offices.
About Ukrainian photographer Kirill GOLOVCHENKO (b. 1974)
Photo volumes by Kirill GOLOVCHENKO
- Format
- Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 cm., 48 pp., 24 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 100 numbered copies