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Olena Slyesarenko
Small Economies
This project examines the quickly changing commercial landscape of Ukraine and its impact on the work force. By moving indoors, into corporate supermarkets and malls, it is becoming more Westernized and homogeneous. The archive of images of street vendors and other small, unlicensed businesses records an element of Ukrainian visual culture as it disappears. Not without irony, the beach portraits capture a black-market economy in the sunshine.
Ukrainian Olena Slyesarenko earned a BA from Glasgow School of Art and studied at the Pratt Institute in New York. She has worked with a number of well-known photographers; her work has been exhibited in WASPS Studios, Newbery Gallery, Glasgow, and, along with her writing, has been published in F2 Freelance Photographer and the Royal Photographic Society Journal.
Olena Slyesarenko