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- ISBN 9781910401712
- Dimensions: 215 x 285mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 2022
- Publisher: GOST Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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‘Time is different in Odesa. It’s a city outside of time’.
As a child growing up in Kyiv, Yelena Yemchuk was fascinated by the reputation of Odesa as a free
place during Soviet times. The city seemed full of contradictions — “acceptance but also danger.
A place of jokes and characters, populated by outlaws and intellectuals.” She first visited Odesa in
2003 and returned in 2015 to begin to photograph the city and its inhabitants over a period of four
years.
In 1981, when Yemchuk was eleven years old, her family immigrated to the United States from their
home in Kyiv, Ukraine. They could tell no-one out of their family of their plans to leave and going
beyond the ‘Iron Curtain’ at the time meant they could never return to their home country. Ten
years later, when Ukraine announced its independence, the artist was able to return to her home
country to visit
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Yelena Yemchuk immigrated to the United States with her parents when
she was eleven. She became interested in photography when her father gave her a 35 mm
Minolta camera for her fourteenth birthday and went on to study at Parsons in New York and
Recognised for her surrealistic whimsy and dark romanticism, Yemchuk has exhibited paintings
and photographs in museums and galleries worldwide. She has shot for the New Yorker, Another
Magazine, ID, Dazed & Confused, and Italian, British and Japanese Vogue.
