Artwork information
- Author
- Andriy Lomakin
- Project
- Amulet series
- Name
- Untitled
- Year
- 2015
- Medium
- archival pigment print
- Dimensions
- 30x45 cm
- Provenance
- The photographer's private archive
- Additional notes
- “During winter 2014 I have watched on TV the cannon shooting right from the yard in the living block of Donetsk city center. That moment I’ve realized I would never want to have a view like this by my window. My work is about TV, music and design and I believe to have quite a good experience here. Now I am experienced with weapons as well. I am ready to use arms in danger but have no idea how this could actually happen. Think I’ve made my decision to shoot when I was out on the way to get license for my weapon.” Valentin, 53 years old, director general of TV channel , posing in his apartment in Kiev with shotgun, which he bought in March 2015. Kiev, Ukraine, 1 December 2015.
- Catalog number
- LOMA-14(2015)
- Inscription
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On the verso side: inscription “Андрей Ломакин, ‘Амулет’, 2015, 1/5”
About the artist
Untitled
Andriy Lomakin (1974, Pripyat) — Ukrainian photographer. In 1999 graduated from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute on the faculty of electronic engineering. Practices mixed martial arts, gave up sports because of traumas. Worked as a photographer at a sport magazine. Since 2008 till 2014 was a staff photographer of Tyzhden magazine. In 2014 starts switches to his personal freelance projects. They are aimed at the research of the social landscape of Ukraine, combining documentary photography and working with archives (Forgotten Victories, Two Lives). Winner of “Photographer of the Year” grand-prix (2017) for the Amulet series (2015), and Allard Prize for Maidan Revolt (2014).
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Photo credit – Alexandr Chekmenev
2003 — “20 кивських фотографів. Позиція”, as a part of Kyiv Month of Photography “Фотобієнале 2003”, “Лавра” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2003 — “Media Eye Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 — “Київ, 24 години”, “Ра” gallert, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 — screening as a part of “Третий глаз” symposium, School of contemporary photography “Photoplay”, Moscow, Russia
2013 — multimedia screening programme “Пам’ять”, as a part of “Візії” festival, Mueum “Kyiv Fortress”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 — screening as a part of Tbilisi Photofestival, Tbilisi, Georgia
2013 — 3rd place in “Фотограф року”, contest Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 —“PHOTOVISA” festival contest, Multimedia contest, Krasnodar, Russia
2014 — “Die Ukraine nach dem Maidan. Ein dramatischer Frühling”, city hall, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2014 — “Euromaidan: The True Story”, as a part of “Kolga Photofestival”, TBC gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (curator — Khrystyna Shestak)
2014 — “Євромадйан: власна історія”, 8 bit Gallery, Kyiv. Ukraine (curator — Khrystyna Shestak)
2015 — 2nd place in “Фотограф року”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 — screening as a part of Odesa/Batumi Photo Days 2015 programme, Batumi, Georgia
2015 — screening as a part of Tbilisi Photofestival, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 — screening as a part of “WORLD PRESS PHOTO ’15”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 — screening as a part of “Photo Kathmandu 2015”, Kathmandu, Nepal
2016 — screening as a part of Odessa//Batumi Photo Days 2016 programme, Batumi, Georgia
2016 — 2nd place in NPPA Best of Photojournalism” contest, Portrait & Personality (Single) category
2016 — International festival Photometria International Festival, Ioannina, Greece
2016 — solo exhibition, IZOLYATSIA, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 — screening “The Collective Unconscious project”, Chiang Mai Month of Photography, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2016 —Photo Romania festival, Durgau-Valea Sarata, Romania
2017 — Gran-prix of “Фотограф року” contest, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 — group show of Odessa//Batumi Photo Days 2017, Odesa, Ukraine
2017 — фотографічна нагорода Alfred Fried Photography Award, group exhibition, Paris, France
2018 — “N-Ost Reportagepreis 2018”, Berlin, Germany
2019 — “Love, Lust & Fury”, Klaipeda CCC, Klaipeda, Lithuania (curator — Darius Vaičekauskas, co-curator — Galyna Gleba)
2019 — “UPHA Made in Ukraine”, AKT art space, Kyiv, Ukraine (curators — Victoria Bavykina, Maksim Horbatskiy, Yarolsav Solop, art director — Misha Buksha)
2019 — winner of “Eastern Partnership”, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany
2019 — Х International Biennale “Phodar”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Connors, Amy. “Forgotten Victories”. The New Yorker, February 6, 2016. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/forgotten-victories-soviet-era-sports.
Lomakin, Andrey. “Photos: war-ready Ukrainians pose with their household guns”. Quartz, May 5, 2015. https://qz.com/397525/photos-ukraine-civilians-firearms-right-to-bear-arms/.
Petrou, Michael. “In Ukraine, a guns becomes a necessary tool”. Maclean’s, January 10, 2016. https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/in-ukraine-a-gun-becomes-a-necessary-tool/#gallery/necessary-tools/slide-7.
Yaffa, Joshua. “Ukraine, a “Supermarket” for Guns”. The New Yorker, January 17, 2017. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/ukraine-a-supermarket-for-guns.
“Андрей Ломакин: «У публики нет понимания другой фотографии, мы упустили нужный момент»”. ArtsLooker, May 27, 2017. https://artslooker.com/andrey-lomakin-u-publiki-net-ponimaniya-drugoy-fotografii-myi-upustili-nuzhnyiy-moment/.
Ломакин, Андрей [Lomakin, Andrey]. “ Жаркие. Майские. Твои”. Bird In Flight, April 30, 2015. https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/tihie-vody-reka-bezmyatezhnogo-detstva-v-proekte-andreya-lomakina.html.
Ломакин, Андрей [Lomakin, Andrey]. “ Из Припяти с опаской: Чернобыльская авария в воспоминаниях одной семьи”. Bird In Flight, April 26, 2017. https://birdinflight.com/ru/reportaj/20170426-pripyat-one-family.html.
Ломакин, Андрей [Lomakin, Andrey]. “Забытые победы: Эфемерность спортивной славы в проекте Андрея Ломакина”. Bird In Flight, December 24, 2015. https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/zabytye-pobedy-krasota-bessmyslennost-sporta-v-proekte-andreya-lomakina.html.
Ломакин, Андрей [Lomakin, Andrey]. “Тихие воды: Река безмятежного детства в проекте Андрея Ломакина”. Bird In Flight, August 24, 2015. https://birdinflight.com/ru/vdohnovenie/fotoproect/tihie-vody-reka-bezmyatezhnogo-detstva-v-proekte-andreya-lomakina.html.
Ломакін, Андрій [Lomakin, Andrey]. “Повернення додому: кого й навіщо притягує покинуте місто?”. Тиждень, April 26, 2012. https://m.tyzhden.ua/publication/48617.
Семеник, Оксана [Semenyk, Oksana]. “Франкенштейн, или «тело» в современной украинской фотографии”. YourArt, January 20, 2020. https://supportyourart.com/columns/frankenstein-photo.