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| | culturebase.net | The international artist database | Boris Mikhailov |
 | | Arguably his most important work, ‘Case History’ explores the break-up of the Soviet Union by focussing on its human casualties, the homeless or ‘bomzhes’, living on the margins of Russia’s new economic regime without social support or care. |
 | | His work documents Ukraine under Soviet rule, the conditions of living in post-communist Eastern Europe, the fallen utopias of the Soviet Union, all interwoven with mediations on lust, longing, togetherness, vulnerability, destitution, aging and death. |
 | | Recipient of the 2000 Hasselblad Foundation International Award and Citibank 2001 Photography Prize, he is recognised as the most outstanding photographer of Soviet origin. |
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