{"id":44433,"date":"2017-01-25T11:10:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=44433"},"modified":"2017-01-25T11:10:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:10:34","slug":"best-eastern-european-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/best-eastern-european-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Eastern European Photographers that You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eastern “Praying Girl,” 2013. By Viola Fatyol<\/p>\n

 
\nThe world currently has an infatuation with the aesthetic from the former Eastern Bloc and by extension its art too. Spanning from Russia to Slovenia, Czech Republic to Ukraine, eastern Europe is home to an incredible diversity of art that is as innovative as it is timeless. It is\u00a0a region that has\u00a0been through incredible change throughout its history, the effects\u00a0of which are still being felt and gone through today. As a result, it is up to eastern European\u00a0photographers to preserve what\u00a0they find particularly noteworthy. To highlight the best of eastern European art, we have rounded up five photographers for you to know.
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\"Eastern From “Syrian Refugees in Greece,” 2014<\/p>\n

Enri Canaj<\/h2>\n

Enri Canaj wields his camera like a weapon, using it not only to take aesthetically pleasing pictures, but as a means of socio-political documentation. His pictures of Syrian refugees in Greece are\u00a0a case in point, simultaneously contrasting\u00a0their pain and needless struggle with their humanity and capacity for hope. Pictures like these provide a great counterpoint to the lies about refugees’ intentions that are spread daily in the media.
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\"Eastern “Untitled,” 2015. By Joanna Pietrowski<\/p>\n

Joanna Piotrowska<\/h2>\n

Joanna Piotrowska creates raw and inviting pictures that focus heavily on questions of identity and familial relationships. Creating portraits that in their very ambivalence unsettle and make the viewer question notions of selfhood, she says of her work that it aims<\/a> “not to tell a story, but evoke scattered associations of inertia, violence or being mentally overwhelmed, but all of this accompanied by contradictory feelings: intimacy, closeness, joy, protection, and tenderness.”
\nUpcoming Exhibitions:<\/em>\u00a0Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff, UK;\u00a0Southard Reid, London, UK;\u00a0Art Basel\/Statements, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Basel, Switzerland;\u00a0ROOM, Sadie Coles, London, UK
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\"Eastern “Playground 11,” 2015. Ivan Mikhaylov.<\/p>\n

Ivan Mikhailov<\/h2>\n

Having\u00a0learned\u00a0his scientific and catalogue-like approach at the Dusseldorf school of photography, Mikahilov is known for\u00a0documenting his\u00a0native Russia. Among his best works are his photographs of children’s playgrounds, linking their use of rocket imagery with the old Soviet desire to conquer space. As he eloquently puts it: <\/a>“these children\u2019s rockets have become heaps of rusting ruins. These rockets are the nostalgic story of my childhood, an attempt to run away from reality into the world of dreams.\u201d
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\"Eastern “Outer Space,” 2013. By Viola F\u00e1tyol<\/p>\n

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Viola F\u00e1tyol<\/h2>\n
Mixing her photography with video installations, the Hungarian-born Viola F\u00e1tyol uses her camera as a means to balance the traditional with the contemporary. A case in point can be evidenced by her “Orando at Labarando” project where she returned to her old Catholic school in order to see how centuries-old customs are still being observed in the present day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Eastern From “Family Triptych,” 2007-2012. Igor Omulecki<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Igor Omulecki<\/h2>\n
\nThe Polish-born photographer has had his work exhibited everywhere from London to Toronto. His opus is the Family Triptych, which took five years to produce. Focusing on his relationship with his wife and child, it uses abstraction to unbound it from the constraints of time. As his website says<\/a>: “Despite using photography whose exhibitionist potential is well known this is not a story about privacy and access to it. The possibility disappears from our sight very quickly.”\n<\/div>\n

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