Wednesday 19 February 2014

Kharkiv School of Photography: Roman Pyatkovka

«Ghosts of the 30s (1989) are the portraits of those people who suffered from the repressions conducted by Stalin and the 'Hunger' of 1932-1933. These are the faces of people who look at us from those terrific times. Some of the faces are the paraphrase of the typical portraits in ‘hero-style’ from the honours board of the totalitarism, the others look like already yellowish photos from the family iconostasis hanging on the wall of the village house.»

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