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From “Blaue Horse” Till Now Days 1965–2022, by Boris Mikhailov – Érika Nimis

The Photobook
Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Boris Mikhailov

[August 30, 2023] By Érika Nimis. The tone of this book by the photographer Boris Mikhailov (born in Kharkiv in 1938) is established on the front cover, which looks like a page torn from a notebook, with scribbles, stains, and things crossed out…

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Boris Mikhailov, Ukrainian Diary — Érika Nimis


Authors: Erika Nimis | Artists: Boris Mikhailov

[December 14, 2022] By Érika Nimis. The exhibition Ukrainian Diary, presented at the Maison européenne de la photographie (MEP), is the largest retrospective ever devoted to the abundant and iconoclastic work of the photographer Boris Mikhailov, which resonates with more than a half-century of contemporary Ukrainian history. The exhibition is set out chronologically, on two floors – some twenty series – accompanied by Mikhailov’s own commentary…

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Boris Mikhailov – Johanna Mizgala

Ciel variable 90 – COLLABORATIONS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Boris Mikhailov

April 18, 2017 [originally published in CV90 in Winter 2012] — During the Soviet era, it was unlawful to photograph anything that contradicted the reigning political ideology. As images were seen to be an extremely forceful argument to support the cause, anything that might show signs of rust on the well-oiled machine would not be tolerated. The negation of an outlet for visual evidence to the contrary of the accepted narrative attests to the very power of the documentary photograph, for it bears silence witness when it is too dangerous to speak the truth.

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