Alexander Chekmenev, Pharmakon / Ambulance

Pharmakon / Ambulance

Alexander Chekmenev

Publisher
89books
Year
2021
ISBN
978-88-944092-8-4
Specifications
Softcover
17 x 23 cm
132 pages
65 color photographs
6 black and white photographs
Digital print
Text by Donald Weber
Design by 89books

Look at Sasha’s photographs in this book. See how they have tied the dead man’s wrists off with clean white rags, and placed his battered head on a perch of kindness? They’re troublesome, disturbing – they are certainly not easy to engage with. You have every right to be disturbed by them. I certainly am. But there’s something more to these photographs than just easy gore; think of them as images drawn from Ukraine’s bitter history, where its exposure to new armies and ideologies on Europe’s eastern flanks has made it the premier killing ground for a thousand years.

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