Odesa by Yelena Yemchuk - ISBN: 9781910401712
Hardcover
A Ukrainian artist captures Odesa’s timeless spirit and captivating contradictions.

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  • Hardcover

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    26 May 2022

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Summary

‘Time is different in Odesa. It’s a city outside of time’.

As a child growing up in Kyiv, Yelena Yemchuk was fascinated by the reputation of Odesa as a free place during Soviet times. The city seemed full of contradictions — “acceptance but also danger. A place of jokes and characters, populated by outlaws and intellectuals.” She first visited Odesa in 2003 and returned in 2015 to begin to photograph the city and its inhabitants over a period of four years.

In 1981, when Yemch…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781910401712
ISBN-10:1910401714
Author:Yelena Yemchuk, Ilya Kaminsky
Publisher:GOST Books
Imprint:GOST Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:26 May 2022
Weight:599g
Dimensions:285mm x 215mm x 20mm
About The Author

Yelena Yemchuk

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Yelena Yemchuk immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was eleven. She became interested in photography when her father gave her a 35 mm Minolta camera for her fourteenth birthday and went on to study at Parsons in New York. Recognised for her surrealistic whimsy and dark romanticism, Yemchuk has exhibited paintings and photographs in museums and galleries worldwide. She has shot for the New Yorker, Another Magazine, ID, Dazed & Confused, and Italian, British and Japanese Vogue.

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