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Copyright the Artist | | | Mikhailov, Boris (1938 - ) Ukraine
Mother and Daughter. After taking the Bath, she said: now the rats will not find us, Ed. 4/7, 1999
C-Print; 158 x 324 cm 21st Century
UID 102-1565
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Biography
Born in the former Soviet Union he lives and works in the Ukraine and in Berlin. He received an education as an engineer and started to teach himself the practice of photography. Today he is one of the most successful and well-known photographers, who already was actively working in soviet times. His work very much is influenced in the means of Concept-Art and Social-Documentary-Photography. At the end of the 1960s he had his first exhibition. After the KGB found nude-pictures of his wife he was set off his job as an engineer and started to full-time work with photography. He shot a series of everyday-life scenes As an important part of contemporary art are considered his works "Case History". Here he examines the consequences of the break down of the Soviet Union for the people living there. Therefore he systematically took pictures of homeless people, who soon started trusting him. More than 500 photographs show the situation of people, who after the break down of the Soviet Union were not able to catch hold in a secured social system. His attention is drawn to people living at the edge of society. It's one of the best works found within social documentary photography.
Exhibitions
Tudo o que é Sólido Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
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