「這系列我從2014年春天開始拍攝，如同往常，我並沒有從一開始設定這會變成一整個系列，那些靈感和想法都是在我拍攝的同時萌芽發展的。這些明亮且高彩的畫面象徵著和平、寧靜與絕對的理想狀態，彷彿不存有一絲毫危險威脅，有如某人的夢境。另一方面卻也無法感受時間的推移，這些人只是慣性地移動或做著宛如例行的事——過去與未來並存，沒有先後之分——這些人究竟希望從人生中獲得什麼呢？

這系列在克里米亞面臨爭議時期的各個海灘拍攝、不同視角構成。之所以挑選海灘作為拍攝的場景，是因為它們常被人們視作生命節奏密度的指標。」（藝術家自述）

"This series I began to shoot last spring. As usual, I didnít plan to do a series originally, but trying is the best way to dive into what I am most concerned at the moment. The whole complex of ideas and currents of sentiment which prevailed inside me during the period when I was shooting this series was poured. Outwardly quite a romantic picture of a peaceful, happy existence, almost idyllic. In bright and unsaturated colors, perfect peace, tranquility, serenity feeling the absolute ideality of the situation and cannot be thought about the threat, partly it all like echoes of actual dreams. But there is the feeling of a lack of time, as if all those people to come and do what they do solely by inertia or habit. Has already clearly left a past, unknown future, but this all goes on, as if there were no first and second, neither before nor after. What really want these people from life? for the sake of what they live?

All pictures were taken on the beaches of the Crimea, in a very controversial time period* with different points of view. The beaches were chosen because they are considered by many people to be an indicator of the intensity of the rhythm of life in this place." (Kirill Kovalenko)

 

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經過克里米亞公投後，結果顯示極多數的投票者都贊成離開烏克蘭、歸屬俄國。克里米亞自治共和國在2014年3月18日宣告克里米亞半島區獨立、併入俄羅斯聯邦。
Following a Crimean referendum, held on 16 March 2014, in which separation was favoured by a large majority of voters. The Ukrainian Autonomous Republic of Crimea declared independence and decided to return to the Russian Federation on 18 March 2014.

 

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Kirill Kovalenko
Born in 30th of December in1986, in Kirovograd, Ukraine. Now based in Simferopol, Crimea. Started his practice in photography about 4 years ago. Engaged in mainly digital photo, although some time ago he experienced a surge of interest in analogue photography. He's a self-taught photographer and a member of the Association Ukrainian alternative photographic since June 2013. 

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