Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics:
Part 3 - Contemporary Photographers Exhibition 1
© Igor Karpenko Ideal World 2008
Igor Karpenko
Igor Karpenko (b. 1964, Kharkiv, now living in Kiev) started his engagement with photography in the early 1980′s. (See exhibtion 2 for Karpenko's 1985 - 2000 work.)
Karpenko’s The Ideal World (2006 - 2014) is a series of staged images and digital montages, where he used multi-exposure to inhabit his images with people, animals and objects. Unlike his 1990s’ studio stagings, the models in The Ideal World are often countryside people, villagers, and farmers, posing in the rural scenery. Karpenko says that his work is an attempt to “counter the unstable today’s reality with something whole and ideal”.
Portfolios
View Portfolio: Ideal World 2006-20014
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