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The German soldier in the long overcoat is looking at the propaganda banner “If tomorrow there is war, if the enemy attacks”; behind him there is the damaged Schorsa movie theater, on the left side there is a line of German trucks on Kuibysheva square and nearby in the park Wehrmacht soldiers are taking photos with the water tower in the background…
How was Chernigov seen by the German invaders? How did the city look after the bombing two weeks earlier?
Temples, buildings and streets, German military equipment and lines of prisoners of war – more than 40 unique photographs from a private collection will be presented for the first time at a single exhibition at the ChernigivPhotoFest.

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В длинной шинели немецкий солдат смотрит на пропагандистский плакат «Если завтра война, если враг нападёт»; позади него стоит повреждённый кинотеатр им. Щорса, левее, на площади им. Куйбышева, стоит колонна немецких грузовиков, а недалеко в скверике солдаты Вермахта фотографируются на фоне водонапорной башни…
Каким увидели Чернигов немецкие оккупанты? Как выглядел город, который подвергся бомбардировке двумя неделями ранее?
Храмы, здания и улицы, немецкая техника и колонны военнопленных – более 40 уникальных фотоснимков из частной коллекции будут впервые представлены в отдельной экспозиции в рамках ЧерниговФотоФест.

HIS DREAMS

Lviv, Ukraine, 2004-2010.Capacity: 1000 Photos.The project “HIS DREAMS” (2004-2010) is a subjective life story (duration of 6 years) of one man who lives in Virmenska street just in the heart of Lviv.
His name is Andriy
Hi is 43.
He lives with 70-year old Hanya & calles her his wife.
He is childishly naive and sincere, he is safe for the society, but he’s completely rejected by it.
You can find with him all human virtues & nobility, fears & sins, sufferings & pains, hopes & dreams, his dreams. UKR

ЙОГО СНИ

Львів, Україна, 2004-2010рр.
Проект «ЙОГО СНИ», 2004-2010рр. – це суб’єктивна історія із життя (тривалістю 6-ть років) одного чоловіка, мешканця вулиці Вірменської в самому центрі Львова.
Його звати Андрій.
Йому 43 роки.
Він живе із 70-ти річною Ганею, яку називає своєю жінкою.
Він по-дитячому наївний та щирий, цілком безпечний для суспільства, проте повністю ним відкинутий.
В ньому можна побачити всі людські чесноти та велич, страхи і гріхи, страждання і муки, мрії та сни, його сни.

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Yurko Dyachyshyn
Born 1980, Lviv, Ukraine.
Took up photography in 2002.
2004-2007 –photographer for the “Expres” newspaper (Lviv).
Since 2007 – independent photographer (freelancer).
Works as e photographer for Ukrainian and international media, advertising and PR photography.
Lives and works in Lviv, Ukraine.

One Person Exhibitions:

“Benches”, “Dzyga” Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine, 2012.
“His dreams”, installation at the festival “Noc kultury”, Lublin, Poland, 2011.
“Miłość Publiczna”, “Gallery Atavantich”, Jarosław, Poland, 2010.
“His dreams”, ”Dzyga” Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine, 2010.
“The Horses”, PhotoClub “5×5”, Lviv, Ukraine, 2010.
“Bonjour Paris!”, Alliance Française, Lviv, Ukraine, 2010.
“Lviv-Life”, Museum of Arts, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, 2008.
“Benches”, within the frames of the project “ L ² ” Lublin, Poland, 2009.
“Benches”, within the frames of the project “Lviv day in Krakov”. Krakov, Poland, 2009.
“Carpathian shepherds”. “Galeria Rynek 6”, Jarosław, Poland. 2009.
Exhibitions, OST KLUB, Vienna, Austria, 2007.
“Light Inside of You”, Lviv Philharmonic, Lviv, Ukraine, 2007.
“Neither Alive, Nor Dead”, Greek Culture Centre, Odesa, Ukraine 2006.
“Life is Beautiful”, “Dzyga” Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine, 2006.
“Sounds of the City”, “Dzyga” Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine, 2005.

Participant of more than 150 collective exhibitions in Ukraine and Europe.

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 Wesley Wong (Hong Kong)

In the center of the photograph, the Victoria Harbor glistens under the sun. Star Ferries pass by. Skyscrapers across the harbor cover the mountains. An overhang on Queen’s Pier casts a shadow on six spectators, creating a silhouette of their bodies. Relatively in their old age, they rest on a metal rail along the edge of the pier. After few decades, most of the old structures in Hong Kong are to be demolished along with so much of its historical value. I feel a sense of nostalgia as they look out onto the harbor one last time.

I found this photograph about a year after it was taken and I was able to feel the exact same feeling as those I felt behind the camera. At that moment, I realized the power of a photograph; how it can capture emotions, capture time. I began looking at several photography books of old Hong Kong, and saw many other photographers were able to document the water shortage of 1963, Shek Kip Mei Public Estate fire in 1953, and most beautifully, a Hong Kong without skyscrapers. Inspired with by Henri Cartier Bresson’s quote “We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory”. I too wanted to document history so that those in the future could see today’s world.

Photography is the only way I can express my inner thoughts. The camera acts as my third eye, a mechanical eye that is intuitive and impulsive. Photography is the way I shout.

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В центре фотографии блестит от солнца причал Виктория. Проплывают Star Ferries. Небоскрёбы вокруг гавани закрывают горы. Навес над Королевским пирсом бросает тень на шестерых людей, создавая силуэты их тел. В относительно преклонном возрасте, они опираются на металлический поручень вдоль края пирса. Через несколько десятилетий большая часть старого Гонконга будет снесена вместе с её историческим значением. Я испытываю чувство ностальгии, когда для этих людей открывается вид на гавань в последний раз.

Я нашёл эту фотографию спустя год после того как она была отснята, и я мог почувствовать те же самые ощущения как и по ту сторону камеры. В тот момент я осознал силу фотографии; как она может запечатлеть эмоции, запечатлеть время. Я начал смотреть фотоальбомы старого Гонконга и видел как многие другие фотографы смогли задокументировать нехватку воды в 1963 году, пожар в Shek Kip Mei Public Estate в 1953, и, наиболее красивое, – Гонконг без небоскрёбов. Вдохновлённый цитатой Анри Картье Брессона «Мы, фотографы, имеем дело с преходящими вещами, и уж если они остались позади, то никакие ухищрения не заставят их вернуться обратно. Мы не можем проявить и распечатать память», я также захотел документировать историю, чтобы в будущем смогли бы увидеть сегодняшний мир.

Фотография является единственным способом, через который я могу выразить сокровенные мысли. Камера действует как мой третий глаз, глаз механический, интуитивный и импульсивный. Фотография – это мой крик.

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Alina Kisina’s photographic series City of Home might, at first glance, seem merely aimed at capturing the daily life of her hometown of Kiev, Ukraine. Yet Kisina’s strangely evocative photographs are concerned less with documentary impressions than with opening up realms above and beyond the mundane images that define the surface of her work. For the subway steps, skylines, facades, and factory lots that Kisina depicts resonate with an order that seems not of this world. Her pictures—often quite literally—reflect realms that seem to be existing side-by-side with or beyond the mere material givens of her everyday subject matter. Although superficially static, her serene, perfectly composed photographs actively lead us into higher realms that are uplifting and light: they cause us to transcend the materiality of everyday existence and enter into planes of experience heretofore unknown

Vivian Maier’s way of life speaks to what all artists and individuals strive to achieve in one form or another: coming to terms with their personal sense of beauty through pursuit of one’s own purpose.Like many great artists, Vivian Maier did just this. However, in her case, she did so without the support of family, friends or fellow artists. Through her own isolated efforts, Maier found her life’s mission in photography, documenting her own sense of beauty (sometimes raw) in the images of people, places and things around her.

Maier incessantly prowled the city and suburban streets with her camera, day and night, locally and worldwide, in all types of weather (sometimes extreme). It certainly appears that her approach to art-making followed a “one-tenth inspiration, nine-tenths perspiration” recipe. Additionally, it seems appropriate that her choice of residency was Chicago, a city known for its no-nonsense, “big shoulders” work ethic. The melding of her work drive with an environment that rewards hard work helped Vivian Maier become the exceptional photographer that she is now posthumously recognized to be.

Through both her life and her images, Maier affords us an experience of elevation, a sense of what the human spirit can achieve through art. Her private determination has resulted in an abundant collection of contagiously inspirational photographs. Across gender, race, age, and occupation, she has inspired not only professional and amateur photographers, but painters, sculptors, designers, musicians, writers, and art lovers in general, among many others who have communicated their thoughts to us. Vivian Maier lives on as an inspiration for both present and future generations. As said by a 13-year-old aspiring photographer and admirer of Maier’s work, “I feel like I’m standing right along side of her…”