Kharkiv School of Photography: From Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics

An online platform platform that will introduce the Kharkiv School of Photography, a phenomenon of Ukrainian art from the 1970s to the present. The project offers a foreign reader a new view of Ukraine and its artistic context. It will also show the role of art in helping society go beyond its totalitarian way of thinking. The resource will be interesting both for the professional audience and a wide range of people keen on the topics of totalitarian heritage, the search for new visual forms of expression, rethinking the perception of beauty, etc. The portal consists of a photo gallery and curatorial texts.

Visuals:

Evgeniy Pavlov. Love, 1976

Igor Chursin. Green Water, 2020

Uladzimir Parfianok. Evgeniy Pavlov in Nida, 1987