Apr 12, 2023 - May 7, 2023
Mishka Bochkaryov, Nesamovyte lake, Western Carpathians, Ukraine, 2022
Paper Dimensions: 35 x 28 cm | 13 25/32 x 11 1/32 inch
Limited edition out of artist’s print: 1 of 10 available on Bidsquare
Mishka Bochkaryov | I was born in Starokostyantyniv, Ukraine in 1989, two years before the fall of the Soviet Union. When I grew up I realized how much its dissolution influenced my own feeling of aesthetics. During my childhood years I’ve changed two high schools, where I studied the history of art and traveled with my family. It was at that time that I had my first photo and video cameras and started documenting things around me. The area I lived in had industrial buildings and railway tracks, my memory holds those images until today and impacts the perception of my surroundings. Later I studied Public Services in my local Technical College, which unexpectedly started my career as a chef. I've worked in this sphere for a long time and was in charge of catering for three presidents of Ukraine. I was a cook but still liked to document everything that surrounded me. At some point in my life I decided to leave cooking and devoted all my time to photography and video. I understood that my heart lies in street photography. The ability to make anthropological research, to study the environment, peoples’ reactions and emotions amaze me. I explore streets every day, seeking particular details, which could appear in colors, shadows, wrappers, peoples actions or emotions, or in the most unexpected places invisible to passersby. I take my pictures in dirty realism style. And merge them with mystification in short stories (diptychs triptychs, etc.).
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