Savchenko, Igor

Igor Savchenko Untitled,  2008–2009
Biography

Photos from family archives are not meant to be seen by strangers. Such pictures serve as mementoes; people show them to friends and relatives, have the shots enlarged and framed, and hang them on the wall. The images don’t usually go outside the family circle.More ...

Igor Savchenko Photo serie 1989-1991

Igor Savchenko’s photographic work can be classed as belonging to the type of visual activity that displays the persistence of an indefatigable researcher in interacting with the previous history of photography on the level of both technique and photographic theory. It is common knowledge that there is no single technical basis for photography, since at the very outset of its history several competing methods of producing a photographic print appeared. But there is something that links the various technical solutions of this task – the historic emotional experience of the possibility that the world can pass into a photographic image, avoiding the subjective sphere of presentation by means of which the world “returned” as something already presented permanently by somebody.More ...