Tatyana Binovskaya- artist

Yesterday and today I had interesting dreams and I will find it necessary to write them down. First dream. We recently watched the Italian TV series Gomorrah and it impressed me. Once we visited Naples and did not even imagine how scary it is to live there. The whole city is filled with drugs and this is the meaning of life for the entire population of the city. During our trip, we visited a local arcade, which is probably available in every city in Italy. In any case, in Milan, where I was also recently, there is a similar passage. Probably these memories were reflected in my dream. Together with my friend, I ended up in the HUB for Artists. Recently, this word and concept have taken root in Ukraine. But here usually these habs are provided for the workplaces of young people who do not have a permanent office. In my dream, it was a huge building, with very high ceilings, the corridors diverged from the centre in different directions and were endless. The walls in the building were not...

The most famous series of photographs by Peter Hugo: “Hyenas and other people” “I first learned about the Nigerian ‘hyena people’ in 2005 thanks to a photo that went viral. The caption to the photo said that these people were debt collectors in Lagos. I realized that I needed to find them. However, the population of the country is 186 million people, so my chances were pretty low. But then in 2017, a journalist friend told me that they now live near his hometown of Kano in the north. Two weeks later I was on my way. Hyena people wander: they never spend more than two days anywhere. I found them in a slum near the capital Abuja. Despite the language barrier, we got to know each other pretty quickly. Outside Lagos and Port Harcourt, I have not seen a single white person in Nigeria. So I probably seemed to them as strange as a guy walking a hyena down the street seemed to me. We lit up weed to break the ice. It turned out that they were not debt collectors – they were more like city heral...

Biography One of South Africa’s leading photographers, Pieter Hugo documents the people and landscapes of Africa.  Hugo is interested in capturing images of the continent’s marginalized peoples, including the blind, albinos, and AIDS victims in their coffins.  His best-known series, “The Hyena and Other Men” (2005-07), depicts itinerant minstrels in Nigeria who perform with pet hyenas and other wild animals. In his series “Permanent Error” (2009-10), Hugo captures the people and landscape of an expansive technology dump of obsolete technology in Ghana.  Though he lists David Goldblatt and Boris Mikhailov as influences, Hugo’s work counters the thread of realism in South African photography the two represent. “I am of a generation that approaches photography with a keen awareness of the problems inherent in pointing a camera at anything,” he says. биография Питер Хьюго, один из ведущих фотографов Южной Африки, снимает людей и пейзажи Африки.  Хьюго интересуется фотогр...

My first correspondence acquaintance with the work of the famous South African photographer took place thanks to my daughter Rada. Rada was the first to visit Hugo's exhibition and bought there an amazing photo album with a series of works entitled "Hyenas and other people" The photos made a huge impression on me and you can imagine how glad I was when some of the tourists with whom I was lucky to work, asked for excursions through the galleries. Cape Town. Such a wonderful desire, it should be noted, was visited not by all my wonderful clients. At the time, Peter's exhibit was at the Stevenson Gallery and we went there straight away. I spoke with the gallery managers and we were able to personally meet a wonderful artist. I still have photographs, but with great regret, they are of very poor quality. And I will tell you about the work of Peter Hugo tomorrow. And it is with him that I will begin my story about South African Artists. Питер Хуго . Мое первое заочное зна...

Christmas. With this story, I will conclude the story of our 2010, but do not be afraid I will not finish my stories and there are many more of them ahead of us. Our world and our life are arranged in such a way that we can in no way know what lies ahead. Even in our dreams, Radu and I did not imagine that fate would throw us so far, to the very tip of the African continent. In the same way, life happens with other people. This is not a bad thing, as it is not a good idea to know in advance what may happen to you or your friends in the future. Our daughter Rada, as I already said, has always been and is very kind and caring towards her friends and acquaintances. For many, she discovered all the wonderful qualities of extraordinary South Africa and her friends are very grateful to her for this. To celebrate Christmas this year, our daughter's Odessa friends joined us and we were all very happy together, but for some of them, the new year brought great grief. I will not write in deta...