"Transvestites, girls bathing in tubs of beer, drunk actors and even more drunk visitors. All of this – club, the club where I’m working. Passed one year as I came to Asia to work as a dancer. The last few months we perform in one Chinese club, which is more like a huge bar with a stage, because no one of the visitors is dancing here. At one moment I realized how many great things are going on here that’s how the series “Behind the scenes” appeared.
This is the reverse, the invisible side of the club, the atmosphere, a part of which I became. At this behind the scenes there is more burlesque than on the stage, the concentration of sexual fluids is more powerful than oxygen. There’s no falsehood – it’s not a scene, it’s their everyday life, our life, or rather mine." - Sergey Melnitchenko
Sergey Melnitchenko was born in 1991 in Mykolayiv, Ukraine. Member of UPHA –Ukrainian Photographic Alternative. He started photography in 2009 and for 10 years participated in more than 100 solo and group exhibitions around the world. Founder and curator of “Melnitchenko Photography School” and MYPH collective (Mykolayiv Young Photographers). Winner of Ukrainian and International competitions, including the “Photographer of the year” 2012, 2013 and 2016 (Kiev, Ukraine), “Golden Camera 2012” (Kyiv, Ukraine), one of 10 finalists of the Showoff section within the month of photography in Krakow 2013, shortlist of “Pinchuk Art Center Prize 2015. Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2017”. Participant of “Paris Photo 2017′′and Volta Art Fair in frames of Art Basel 2018, 2019, etc.
SPECIFICATIONS
Date of creation: 2016
Hahnemühle Rag Baryta 315gsm
Edition of 10
Small size
40 x 27 cm
800€
Large size
60 x 40 cm
1350€
The prints come with a certificate of authenticity made and sent by the artist
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