{"title":"Boris Mikhailov","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBoris Mikhailov: Photography Across the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoris Mikhailov was born in 1938 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. His photographic practice spans the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, working across documentary and conceptual modes with sustained attention to the social body, historical rupture, and the conditions of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMikhailov's method draws on seriality, vernacular imagery, and direct social observation. His work addresses marginalization and collective experience without sentimentality. Early series such as \u003cem\u003eYesterday's Sandwich\u003c\/em\u003e used superimposed images as a formal response to the contradictions of Soviet life. Later bodies of work engage poverty and the body with unflinching directness. Boris Mikhailov photobooks remain among the most studied objects in post-Soviet photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection gathers the Boris Mikhailov books and editions currently stocked at Lokator100, an independent bookstore dispatching carefully from Germany. Each listing includes accurate bibliographic detail and condition notes. \u003ca href=\"\/products\/keep-distance-boris-mikhailov\" title=\"Keep Distance – Boris Mikhailov photobook, available at Lokator100\"\u003eKeep Distance\u003c\/a\u003e is currently available. For broader context, see our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"keep-distance-boris-mikhailov","title":"Keep Distance – Boris Mikhailov","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/boris-mikhailov\" title=\"Browse all Boris Mikhailov titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eBoris Mikhailov\u003c\/a\u003e — Keep Distance\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeep Distance\u003c\/em\u003e is a hardcover \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e publication assembling 369 photographs across 224 pages — a fractured visual diary that draws on images made between 2020 and 2024, with earlier work woven throughout. The book does not proceed chronologically or thematically in any settled way. Fragmentary city scenes, tilted framings, screenshots, and incidental objects from public space appear alongside portraits of his wife and collaborator Vita, his children, and moments of interior life. The camera is positioned at the edge of things, consistently leaving something unresolved outside the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe conceptual register is that of a diary of perception rather than documentation: instability is structural, not incidental. This approach extends concerns present throughout Mikhailov's practice — how to look at everyday life without fixing it, how to register vulnerability and absurdity without resolving them into a single account. His earlier series \u003cem\u003eCase History\u003c\/em\u003e, which addressed the post-Soviet transition and its human cost, established many of the formal and ethical questions that \u003cem\u003eKeep Distance\u003c\/em\u003e continues to work through. Mikhailov is a founding figure of the Kharkiv School of Photography, and his work is held in the collections of MoMA, Tate Modern, and Hamburger Bahnhof. He received the Hasselblad Award in 2000 and the Kaiserring Prize in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTexts by Jimmy Poulot-Cazajous, written in both French and English across 14 pages, accompany the images in an unsteady rhythm that resists fixed meaning rather than anchoring it. The book was designed by Studio Mathieu Meyer and published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/note-note-editions\" title=\"Browse all Note Note Éditions publications at Lokator100\"\u003eNote Note Éditions\u003c\/a\u003e in an edition of 1,500 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Note Note Éditions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53041656332634,"sku":"9782493467096","price":68.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/keep-distance-boris-mikhailov-photobook-cover.jpg?v=1778599495"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/boris-mikhailov.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}