ALEXANDER CHEKMENEV: LILIES two mentalities

two mentalities

isolation and dissociation in everyday life

And we’ve done a lot in the four years MYPH has been around: in addition to the teaching itself

Alec Soth’s “I know how furiously your heart is beating” was created following a period of photographic inactivity

ALEXANDER CHEKMENEV: LILIES two mentalitiesIn 1999, in the psychiatric clinics of the town of Ovruch in Ukraine, Alexander Chekmenev shoots Lilies the series of gripping black and white portraits. The project that has become the classics of Ukrainian photography, sets an important example of the humanistic approach to people, who dont fit in the settled boundaries of normality.