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In her latest series, photographer Yelena Yemchuk creates a love letter to Odesa. Yemchuk’s series on the Ukrainian city began in 2015 with a romantic fascination with youth culture, but quickly turned into a chronicle of a pivotal historical moment. “I felt like I had been shown a secret place.” Yemchuk states. “Like someone took me around a corner, pulled back a curtain and said, ‘Here look, look at this enchanted city.'” And while it is nearly impossible to look at these photographs without considering current events—Yemchuk’s series evince the vitality of a people who embrace pleasure precisely because they have known tragedy, showcasing the duality of whimsy alongside dissolution. See our link in bio to read more on Yelena Yemchuk’s new photobook “Odesa” (GOST Books, 2022) by Elianna Kan. Image: Yelena Yemchuk from Odesa, 2015–19 (GOST Books, 2022); courtesy the artist
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Photo Aperture - Nan Goldin’s iconic visual diary, “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” chronicles the struggle for intimacy and understanding between her friends, family, and lovers in the 1970s and ’80s. Goldin’s…
Photo Aperture - “It is important to slow down around your own work, trust yourself, and ask if you really are done. Knowing when to push through and keep going is just as important as knowing when to stop.” —Todd…
Photo Aperture - “History is made by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.” —David Wojnarowicz Throughout his career, David Wojnarowicz’s use of photography…
Photo Aperture - Heinkuhn Oh’s black-and-white photographs are a vivacious portrait of Seoul in the 1990s. Oh’s series “Itaewon Story” is a record of the denizens of the neighborhood Itaewon, a district known for…
Photo Aperture - “I went to Provincetown originally to explore how the Cape’s light seemed to illuminate nature from within. What I discovered was the manner in which the light penetrated and exposed people’s…
Photo Aperture - “Although my photographs are often described as complicated, my actual process as a street photographer is pretty simple. I sense, almost ‘smell’ the possibility of a photograph. I try to follow the…

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