Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics:
Part 3 - Contemporary Photographers Exhibition 2
© Bogdan Gulyay
Bogdan Gulyay
Bogdan Gulyay (b. 1980, lives in Chernihiv) has been involved in photography since 2010.
Gulyay made a name in Ukrainian photographic community with his stunning black-and-white Bare Nature project (2010 - 2014). Analogue images of nude models in wild nature scenery that were devoid of familiar nude photography cliches or attempts at glamor illustrated the artist’s longing for “places untouched by humans” or “chastity in a woman in a society that is crazy about sex”. This work is a symbolic response to Boris Mikhailov’s notion that “purified” landscapes without signs of human activity could not be part of contemporary photography art.
Gulyay’s My Sexy Chernihiv (2014), first exhibited in Kharkiv in 2014, featured hand-colored black-and-white images as a tribute to the Kharkiv School aesthetics. The pictures of nude or semi-nude models against cityscape background are a homage to the city where he lived half of his life.
View Portfolio: My Sexy Chernihiv
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