Photo © Bogdan Gulyay
Portrait - NOMINEE: Bogdan Gulyay
Unaccomplished studies on Ukrainian erotic
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What do we think about looking at the portrait of a stranger from the other city, country or time? The infamous person that we do not need to know? Why are people so passionate about looking at somebody’s portraits? We stare at the face of the depicted person, mark out some key features, observe clothes and environment. The answer is simple. For a curious viewer, a portrait is not just a picture of a particular person. The portrait reflects its time and place while depicted people present some social group or historical period which we compare to our own.
In this series I try to display the image of new generation. Those people were born after obtaining Ukrainian independence in 1991. Young people didn’t witness the Soviet era with its banned sexuality and forbidden nudes. But still, in the time of «legal» erotic, you need some courage to let a stranger into your private space and pose nude in front of the camera. So there is no doubt that all these guys and girls are special in some sense.
However, my photos are not a sexual manifesto or heaven forbid political statement. It’s rather an inquiring study on young Ukrainian generation, playful introduction to its sexual image. This image is so diverse, various and dynamic, that my studies are doomed to remain unaccomplished. After all, any photo series cannot contain the whole plenitude of life.
About author:
Live in Kyiv, Ukraine.
I work mostly in different classical and alternative black and white gelatin silver techniques.
Member of "Ukrainian photographic alternative" collective (UPHA).
In this series I try to display the image of new generation. Those people were born after obtaining Ukrainian independence in 1991. Young people didn’t witness the Soviet era with its banned sexuality and forbidden nudes. But still, in the time of «legal» erotic, you need some courage to let a stranger into your private space and pose nude in front of the camera. So there is no doubt that all these guys and girls are special in some sense.
However, my photos are not a sexual manifesto or heaven forbid political statement. It’s rather an inquiring study on young Ukrainian generation, playful introduction to its sexual image. This image is so diverse, various and dynamic, that my studies are doomed to remain unaccomplished. After all, any photo series cannot contain the whole plenitude of life.
About author:
Live in Kyiv, Ukraine.
I work mostly in different classical and alternative black and white gelatin silver techniques.
Member of "Ukrainian photographic alternative" collective (UPHA).