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| 2nd Kyiv International Festival of Photo Books |
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IZONE Creative Community 8 Naberezhno-Lugova St, Kyiv Sunday, September 15, 2019 11:00-21:00 Entry 20 hrn |
| The festival will show photo books from its own collection. And yes, all of them can be browsed there, at the festival. The list of photo books, which will be featured - below. |
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Pleasure Island Federico Arcangeli Italy 104 pages Using one of the club capitals of Italy as an example, the author explores how images of certain life styles, that have long become a merchandise, capture the imagination of individuals and direct life in modern society. |
Autodafe Coralie Fournier-Moris France 72 pages Experiencing and comprehending the breakup of a romantic relationships. |
Searching for Stillness Vol II Michael Behlen USA 56 pages An examination of the experiences that make us feel alive. It is the symbolic journey of the mental transformation we undergo as we travel the pathway of human life. |
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Imperfect Roslyn Julia USA 68 pages A collection of images that show moments within a journey during a chapter of intense realization and transformation in the author's life. This project explores the value of what we may choose to disown at first, and how accepting both sides of the spectrum may lead to a more total picture of our world. |
Petrus Francesca Catastini Italy 64 pages The author plays with archetypal images of masculinity in Western culture, finding instability and fluidity in the changing perceptions of this characteristic of a man. |
U N I T Sandra Jordan United Kingdom 104 pages The book explores the notion of beauty through architecture that does not conform to the ideals of modern aesthetics. |
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Culture of Confrontation Maxim Dondyuk Ukraine 290 pages The book by well known Ukrainian documentary photographer is the author's view of protests and battles in Kyiv during Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014. Being an active participant in these events, the author moved away from classical documentary and rather plunged into emotions and surrealism of what was happening. The photo project of the same name, which has received many international awards, has been featured on numerous exhibitions and in numerous publications. In the book one can see the full version of the project also supplemented with texts and maps. |
Dark Cities Trilogy Shyue Woon Singapore 292 pages Series of three books of photographs re-imagining fringe spaces in the metropoles of Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul. ‘Carpark’, first in the series, investigates the nocturnal meanderings of a dark multi-storey carpark in Singapore. ‘Capsule’, the second book, revisits a futuristic tower in Ginza built in the 1970s, through the imagined eyes and mind of its architect. The third book ‘Euljiro’ is a lost and found diary of a fading iconic Seoul district, once a symbol of the country’s modernization. |
Do not throw food out through windows and balconies Piotr Zugaj Poland 100 pages Author’s analyzing style of living in post-Soviet flats in eastern Poland. This is a typical picture built with a doormat and floral composition in an apartment building. And what is interesting, these photographs could possibly being taken in any that kind block of flats in eastern Europe. |
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Oil Sands Alan Gignoux United Kingdom 80 pages The photo project documents the devastating effects that the extraction of oil can have on a landscape as well as the complicated human relationship with the oil industry. Hidden within the vast landscapes are a number of pockets that contain fragments of often overlooked stories documenting the experiences of the people most effected by the oil industry in this area. Each copy of the book is hand bound. |
The Photographs of Vigen Vartanov 1965-1975 Vigen Vartanov Georgia 136 pages Photographs of Vigen Vartanov, with his multi-layered black-and-white worlds filled with mystical codes and meanings, show unexplored surrealistic realities, they are like a kingdom of dreams. His creative work fell outside the rigid soviet system of “socialist realism”, the only artistic style accepted during most years of his lifetime. Knowing this, Vartanov never published these images. Several years after the death of the artist, Vartanov family has returned to his negatives, to print and restore his vision, almost half-a-century after their creation. |
Buried Charles Fox United Kingdom 48 pages The book tells, with archive photographs, an intimate story of one family who survived Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in 1970th. |
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Tropicale Krystyna Jedrzejewska-Szmek & Lukasz Gniadek Poland 160 pages The title comes from the original collection of floral prints, which was compiled at the turn of the XXth century by one of Poland’s most famous clerics, Władysław Michał Zaleski. The album invites us to reflect on the complicated relations between Europe and the Orient. The publication uses Japanese binding, to hide a second, parallel story in its inner pages. The botanical illustrations are in subtle dialogue with the inner layer of the book, which hides a selection of photographs, collages and illustrations carefully prepared by Zaleski himself. These show us India through the eyes of a European priest. The viewer is placed in the uncomfortable position where some of the images and their meanings remain inaccessible. |
Nunis Mischa de Stroumillo United Kingdom 36 pages Photographic journey exploring the links between nature, myth and ontology, inspired by the puberty ritual of the indigenous Kuna people of Panama. |
Don't Look at Me Ana María Ferris Venezuela 48 pages Five armed men, apparently stoned, broke into our home in Caracas. We were tied up, pointed at with long-barreled weapons, threatened. They emptied our house before our own eyes, always downward, because we were ordered not to look at them... For several years Venezuela had been climbing to the ranking among the most violent countries in the world. The country with the most homicides and kidnappings of the Earth... For several months, after this happen, my vision was blurred. I perceived the world in evasive stains, fuzzy, through flashes. As soon as I could I resumed my photographic work. And this is the result. |
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The First Three Years Eva Gjaltema Germany 96 pages The book is based on the artist's personal experience of becoming a mother, on the contradictory nature of the event and the conflicting emotions it creates - the awe at the incredible beauty of motherhood mixed with feelings of daunting powerlessness and isolation. |
