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Skeptic Kharkiv, Nationalist Lviv, Pragmatist Odessa and Democrat Kyyiv. Four cities – four keys to open and understand Ukraine. The exhibition by French photographer Julien Goldstein was opened in Kharkiv gallery “Academy”.
26-year old French photographer took pictures of even notes on walls in Ukrainian cities. Julien made his three visits in Ukraine in the end of 2004: the trace of the ‘orange revolution’ is almost in each photo.
Gray market on Moldavanka and the sea port – this is the open Odessa full with air. Dynamic Kyyiv – visitors assure that the Frenchman managed to perceive not only things striking a foreigner’s eye but also the routine of the capital.
Already in the country, Julien added Donetsk in his route: the monument to Lenin shot in an unusual way. It looks as if the headman overhangs. And a cloakroom at Kalinin mine. Donetsk is an industrial city, its people’s life is quite hard – in the eyes of the European reporter.
Lviv is a poet, who seems to have fallen asleep. A Kharkovian Stepan Pasechnyk saw a friend of his from Lviv in one of the shots.
Stepan Pasechnyk, the chief stage manager in Shevchenko theatre, “I was terribly surprised to see Volodymyr Kofman, an artist from Lviv. However the point is not in the fact that he is an acquaintance of mine, but it is the atmosphere which suggests Lviv”.
Korrespondent, “Was that an unusual view for you?”
Stepan Pasechnyk, the chief stage manager in Shevchenko theatre, “Yes, quite an unusual”.
Kharkiv is a great advanced city to raise scientific aristocracy. Rules, order, horizons – the main words for this city. “We were warned: the former capital of Ukraine is as proud as before”, remembers the photographer. Kharkiv remains a skeptic during and after the elections. The impressions are like those of Donetsk city: megapolis with huge opportunities, where people somehow lead not a very reach life.
Oleksandra Tircuir, manager of the French center in Kharkiv, “When you want to send a post card to your friends and when you manage to find something - more often they will be views of buildings. And Julien Goldstein’s pictures don’t show buildings, they expose life, the atmosphere people live in, walls, and in general warmth… And even here in on eof the photos there is a man fishing, and you do want to be with him despite the fact that there is winter there with minus 30 frost”.
// 29.09.2006 11:49
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/culture/2006/2607.shtml
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