Mercredi 16 Mars 2016 10:40:40 par Louis Tardy dans Expositions

Time seems to stand still in the mountain villages of the Bioko, a small ethnic group in Ukraine’s Carpathians. “I have always been interested in the primal forms of country life, maybe because I grew up in a big city”, says Polish photographer Jan Brykczyński. “Here, I discovered a world as I knew it from childhood fairy tales. A world in which events have magical reasons, where white and black magic struggle and the good fights the bad!” Brykczyński worked in the small village of Karpatskoye in Western Ukraine between 2009 and 2012. His poetic images tell of it's everyday, of the people and the landscape in which they live.

Jan Brykczyński, born 1979, lives and works in Warsaw. In 2014 BOIKO was his first international book publication. In the meantime Dewi Lewis has also published “The Gardener” in 2015. The work of Jan Brykczyński is exhibited internationaly and is found in important collections such as the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne. In Hamburg Jan Brykczyński’s work was last exhibited as part of the group show “The New Social” by the “European Photo Exhibition Award” at Haus der Photographie in the Deichtorhallen.

©Jan Brykczyński Boiko7a 2011