Ukraine

'Labour book. 2014-2015' by Ukrainian photographer Kirill GOLVCHENKO is to be understood as a criticism of the economic situation in his home country. Against the background of the original document of his father, he shows the true situation of pensioners

Crossfading of human bodies in the karst coastal landscape of the Crimean peninsula. The protagonists were taken from contemporary history & the present. MIKHAILOV reproduces here the history of photographic image production in resolution and form finding

For 'I've Been Here Once Before', filmmaker David Teboul selected stills from a documentary about Boris MIKHAILOV, which fill books' middle section. Cleverly arranged, the single motifs create the impression of a cinematic sequence as you turn the pages.

2nd print run - Screen printed, handmade HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5, x 21,5 x 2 cm., 125 pp., 70 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 700 copies

For her out-of-print book 'Sailboats and Swans', Michal CHELBIN portrayed prison inmates in Ukraine & Russia. The portraits oscillate between strangeness and reality. The title refers to the wallpaper that often adorns walls and hallways of these prisons.

HC with dust jacket, 21 x 27,5 x 2,5 cm., 176 pp., 60 coloir & 35 duotone b/w ills., bilingual text: English / German

In the Soviet era, Ukrainian waiters asked 'tea or coffee?' The addition is an expression of the economic changes that MIKHAILOV examines using the example of his hometown Kharkov. Have the promises of salvation of the 'Orange Revolution' been fulfilled?

'Malanka' by Yelena YEMCHUK deals with a folklore ritual celebrated by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine. She visited the village of Krasnoilsk to photograph the local Malanka. The photo series is personal, feminine, surreal and surrounded by magic.

'45' by Damian HEINISCH, is about train journeys on the Donesz-Oslo line that took place at three different times. It brings together a common family history, first in pictures followed by diary-like short texts. The 35mm photos are from his last trip.

HC with dust jacket, 29 x 25 cm., 144 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), approx. 24 x 30 x 2 cm., color ills., no text, Ltd. to only 21 copies

'The Wedding' by Boris MIKHAILOV contains a photo series of a simulated wedding between two homeless people, in the midst of their own environment. It is bound in imitation of a traditional wedding album, with imitation leather and gold embossed lettering

The volume 'Chronicle' features photos by Sergiy LEBEDYNSKYY & Vladyslav KRASNOSHCHK taken in the Ukraine between 2010 and 2015. The scenes at the front-line Kharkiv, the revolutionary Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk regions determinated the future of Ukraine.

Cloth spined Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 27 x 2 cm., 160 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 750 copies

The out-of-print book 'Das Auge des Krieges' by Dieter KELLER follows a seemingly modern pictorial aesthetic, showing that the artistically trained photographer of the Bauhaus period knew how to use aesthetic perception as a key to processing reality.

2nd printrun, linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 26,5 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 41 color ills., bilingual texts: English / German

'Kachalka' is the name of a Ukrainian open-air fitness center in Kyiv, which consists of archaic-looking, mostly self-made exercise equipment. Bodybuilders of all ages act as a powerful and ironic visual metaphor for the spirit of optimism of those years.

In the book 'Verlassene Ort' (Abandoned Places) various photographers document the beautiful and at the same time eerie atmosphere of places where decay has set in and nature has returned. The history & present of these places are explained in short texts

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 156 cm., 204 pp., 101 color ills., text language: English

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 35 x 29 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp., 106 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

The out-of-print photo volume 'Odessa' by Dutch photographer Thomas MANNEKE shows the Ukrainian port city in 2007, mostly young people in the city, in the academy, on the beach. The volume is part of a project on different cities in the same book format.

In the out-of-print volume 'Maskiovka', German photographer Tobias ZIELONY documents the gay techno scene in Kiev, Ukraine. Maskirovka' alludes to a Russian method of deceptive warfare.

MIKHAILOV's chronicle of the stark reality of a historical transition and a moving work of art that offers a bold, radically open perspective on the human body. 'Case History' represents a book that depicts life in all its contradictions and extremes.

'Kochetov' by Victor & Sergey KOCHETOV, the b/w photographs taken between 1970 and 2000 are given an ironic twist by their colorization. The tradition of 'Lurik' photography experiences here its aesthetic limits. Book design is made by Ania NALECKA-MILACH

The photo volume 'Odysseia' by Antoine D'AGATA deals with the undignified migration practices of European governments. It contains depressing photos and images from videos, as well as statistical data and texts by Bruno Le Dantec and Rafael Garido.

This long out-of-print self-published photographic volume 'Euromaidan' by Vladyslav KRASNOSHCHOK and Sergiy LEBEDINSKYY was completed during the Ukrainian revolution. It documents the dramatic events on Maidan Square in the Ukrainian capital Kiev in 2014.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 39,5 x 30,5 x 2 cm., 80 pp., olor ills., text language: English

In 'Diary' Boris MIKHAILOV tells about his life: Historical, but above all private memories in notes, colorings, crossings out, scratches, stains & photo fixing adhesive strips. A poignant chronicle, often ruthless and cynical, carried by the love of life

In a dense photographic narration, Moritz KÜSTNER describes in the photo book 'Silence is the Sound of Fear' the change in Crimea and the life of the Crimean Tatars in the years 2014 to 2019, consisting of displacement, hope, resistance and new beginnings

The out-of-print book 'Escape' by Danila TKACHENKO is about men who have turned their backs on society to live alone in the wilderness of the Russian and Ukrainian forests. It raises the question of their own personal freedom and the possible consequences

Linen bound HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 30 x 2 cm.,

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 22,5 x 2 cm., 156 pp., 72 color ills., 800 gr., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

DAMAGED BERTELSMANN EDITION 1954

In 'Ukrainian Night', Miron ZOWNIR documents drug addicts from Poltava, homeless people at Kiev Central Station, street children in Odessa & Chernivtsi, revealing the profound fault lines in Ukrainian society that were already heralding the revolution.

'Interrogations' is the result of a search for the hidden meaning of the bloody 20th century. Donald WEBER addresses his questions to both the living survivors and the ghosts of the state's countless victims: cops, laborers, thugs, dissidents and goons.

'Maria' deals about 1932-33 famine in Soviet Ukraine. Lesia MARUSCHAK has transformed her knowledge of this period by creating an artbook, as metaphor for memory as elaborate mental function by which information is stored, organized, changed and retrieved

The volumes ‘The Path to Freedom' tell Ukraine's historical path of a struggle for freedom. They portray the important events from the 1st attempts at a revolution through its photographic language and look at photography's development during this period.

This series reflects the reputation of the sensory perception of life. It corresponded to the worldview of the Soviet of the 1960-70s, which began to recognize the duality of life. This was accompanied by changes in society and democratization in the USSR

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 24 x 2 cm., 208 pp., color ills., text language: English

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13,5 x 19 x 2 cm., 208 pp., 99 color ills., text language: English

This artist volume, 'Scratchy Days' by Ukrainian Bogdan GULYAY, contains artistic black and white shots from his personal environment, reflected everyday moments in a world he perceives as oversaturated, in which people are only fleeting, fragile shadows.

This four-volume photo book set, 'Erde, Feuer, Wind, Wasser' by Damian HEINISCH, explores the cultural & collective heritage of Central Europe through his own family history. In addition to the photographs, the set includes bilingually reproduced texts.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 28 x 2 cm., 148 pp., color ills., text language: English

Limited edition - Grey carton pb with banderole, 22 x 24.5 cm., 72 pp., 127 color ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 25 x 30 x 4,5 cm., 412 pp., 200 ills., text language: English

Signed! 'In Limbo' by Florian BACHMEIER, describes a state of numbness & insecurity against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict. The images, taken over the last 8 years, make historical processes visible, as well as their psychological & social effects.

The documentary photo volume 'Aids in Odessa' by German photographer Andrea DIEFENBACH, which is out of print, documents the living situation in Odessa, where the AIDS epidemic spread particularly quickly after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 cm., 92 pp., color ills., English, Ltd to 500 copies / 150 munb., stamped & signed copies