Publisher/Rat Hole Gallery

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"Crimean Snobbism (Hardcover)" is a collection of works by Boris Mikhailov, a leading Ukrainian photographer. It is still fresh in our memory that Mikhailov's masterpiece "Yesterday's Sandwich" was announced as the main program of the 2023 Kyoto International Photography Festival, but I think many people saw it with a sense of sorrow as they were reminded of the fact that wars that were unthinkable in the 21st century are still continuing. Mikhailov's work, which has experienced firsthand the reality of the Soviet socialist system encroaching on Ukraine, is a documentary that tells the story of this era, and also gives a sense of his identity as an individual and artist who seeks "freedom" in various senses. This is a unique work composed of images taken on the Crimean coast that Mikhailov visited with his wife and friends in the early 1980s. It is a book that makes us hope that this happy and prosperous era will return soon. Hardcover version. (A paperboard version is also published separately)