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Front Page Project #30
The VASA Front Page Project
presents the work of a photographer, video and sound artist.
Igor Manko
The Sea, The Skies, and The Black Earth
(2015-2016)
© Igor Manko
Here in eastern Ukraine, we are living through a desperate and depressing time. The media picture those maimed and killed at the front almost every day, the news of escalation of the hostilities fill social networks. Helicopters roar over your head carrying the wounded to the hospitals. Making fancy images with elaborate compositional arrangements feels wrong, like saying a lie. Narrowing down the range of visual components to basic elements - the water, the air, the earth - mirrors the contraction of one's everyday being to the basic values like life and death. (Igor Manko 2017)
Curatorial note: Igor Manko's work is exhibited here because of its relevence to current political conditions in Ukraine. The austerity of these images function on a metaporical and personal level.
© Igor Manko
About Igor Manko, Ukraine (b. 1962, Poltava, Ukraine)
Igor is a head curator for VASA. His major research and exhibition for VASA is the four part “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics”. Igor Manko lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Hie photographic work has been exhibited and collected internationally.
The VASA Front Page Project
presents the work of a photographer,
video or sound artist for one month.
| Front Page Archive 2017 | |
| Rui Pedro Chagas (Portugal) | Natalya Reznik (Germany) |
| Stephen Perloff (USA) | Stefania Zorzi (Italy) |
| Noemi Veberič Levovnik (Slovenia) | Igor Manko (Ukraine) |
| Front Page Archive 2015-16 | |
| Carla Della Beffa (Italy) | FAXEN (Austria) |
| Michael Mastrototaro (Austria) | Eva Petric (Slovenia) |
| Paula Scamparini (Brazil) | Austin Irving (USA) |
| Misha Pedan (Ukraine) | Masa Lancner (Slovenia) |
| Klaus Pamminger (Austria) | Brigitte Konyen (Austria) |
| Lara Ciarabellini (Italy) | Michael Amrose (USA) |
| Nikola Mihov (Bulgaria) | Victor Sokolov (Ukraine) |
| Dennis Church (USA) | Jennifer Schlesinger (USA) |
| Karen Brett (UK) | Beth Moon (USA) |
| Julia Polunina-But (Ukraine) | Joanna Epstein (Spain) |
| Alexandra Bočková (Czech Repub) | Fadi Amraish (Palestine) |
| Ani Zur (Ukraine) | Paul Genin (USA) |
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