Alexander ChekmenevPharmakon / Ambulance 1994-1995
Photographs: Alexander Chekmenev
Text: Donald Weber, Alexander Chekmenev
Publisher: 89 Books
132 pages
Pictures: 71
Year: 2021
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Look at Sasha’s photographs in this book. See how they have tied the dead man’s wrists off with clean white rags, and placed his battered head on a perch of kindness?
They’re troublesome, disturbing – they are certainly not easy to engage with.
You have every right to be disturbed by them. I certainly am.
But there’s something more to these photographs than just easy gore; think of them as images drawn from Ukraine’s bitter history, where its exposure to new armies
and ideologies on Europe’s eastern flanks has made it the premier killing ground
for a thousand years.
Donald Weber
Softcover, 23 x 17 cm. Images and descriptive texts that the artist made following ambulances in Ukraine.
