Born in Kiev in 1981. Started to photograph in 2006.
Studied culture history and theory at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kiev, Ukraine).
Took part in a group exhibit 'Ukrainian black and white photography' (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Ukraine, 2008).
Works was published at the book 'Insight. Ukrainian black and white photography. XXI century' (KonturPress, Kiev, 2008) and the BURN Magazine, (burnmagazine.org, edited by David Alan Harvey).
Worked as a stringer for Ukrainian office of Associated Press and weekly magazine 'Ukrainsky Tyzhden'.
I had a happy childhood. Loving parents, careless daily life in the kindergarden, picnics on the weekends... and Korchevatoye.
The neighborhood where I grew up is located on the very outskirts of Kiev. When I was little it appeared to me as the Magic Land - fruit gardens, labyrinths of garages next to the river, hostels and "khrushchovkas" mixed with private houses, children and babushkas - all so dear... Childhood got imprinted like a bright colorful fairy tale in my memory.
Then I had moved. Now, when I return and walk the pathways of my childhood I feel my heart sinking. Everything around is painfully familiar, and at the same time distant - shrunk and pale. I can barely recognize the faint traces of the fairy tale.
So, what had changed? Yes, houses dilapidated, gardens grew thin, the river is covered by duckweed, children are gone and only few babushkas are left. But is that it? I don't know. I know only one thing – time does its thing (had always did that) with a place of my childhood and with myself.
Black and white photographs were made during spring, 2009.
Color pictures are the slides from my family archive.
Korchevatoye, Kiev, Ukraine.
Work on this project is in progress.
