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Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics: 
Part 3 - Contemporary Photographers Exhibition 1

Kochetov© Victor Kochetov Selfportrait 1995

Victor Kochetov

Victor Kochetov (b. 1947) did not belong to the Vremya group, but was closely associated with the Vremya collective (See exhibtion 1 for Kochetov's 1970 – 1985 work.)

Kochetov’s 2000 - 2015 work follows and takes further two important KSP trends: multiple images and manual coloring.

In Take Two (2000 - 2004) he juxtaposes two or sometimes three digitally toned images showing the same location at different shooting points, an approach started by Boris Mikhailov in his Twos and Fours and continued in some of Vladimir Starko’s images, in Misha Pedan’s Stereo_types, etc. The idea behind this approach, first formulated by Mikhailov, is a recognition that a single “ideal shot” taken at the right place, time and angle is no more a sufficient representation of the object of shooting, and that multiple images add to the “objectivity” of photography.

The Crimea project (2002) gives new life to Kochetov’s favorite hand-coloring technique (now combined with digital toning) and ironical approach in its simulated photo postcard style, with postcard-like inscriptions over deliberately unglamorous low-key images.

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View Portfolio: Crimea 2002
View Portfolio: Take Two 2000-2004

 

 

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