then in 1994 mikhailov received a scholarship and left ukraine for new york city. mo. i left for personal and health and other reasons. but the main reason was that you have to defend your work you have to try to make something out of a book or a project. at the time it was impossible in your crane to do anything at all except collect the pictures that. no longer has to fight for recognition following exhibitions in new york city london and vienna now berlin is often on home for 20 years is finally doing the honors. as a script in that's an i.v. internationally there are very few people who use a camera so powerfully in an effort to influence society. and then all at once in the 1990 s. he cut off a pier the only one to emerge in the post soviet environment and his distinctive approach is to look at social injustice and at the physical and really think about it. even if we kind of has an eye for the weakest and most vulnerable he doesn't think of himself as a do gooder his older works examine the heroes of socialism and poke fun at them. all his work in photography has

bully's mikhailov subjects couldn't be more different he finds them in places like a busy train station in berlin. his photos go against the grain. the protectionists of his images are antiheroes for derelict down and out. his photos long went unpublished. today the need ukrainian is one of the foremost contemporary photographers but yes they show us the wire or take a photo 1st and then ask. if the answer is no i didn't they go. throughout his career boris me highlight focused on people living at the edges of society. is well known series case history from the 1990 s. for trees invalids children and the dispossessed in his home city kharkiv after the collapse of the soviet union. whether of nakedness or need the images are brutally direct often hard to look at me kind of takes a different view. then you would have thought that they'd use the toilet if it's more compassion. maybe even a sign of respect for the problems human suffering. for help people get into this situation by pure bad luck or. you could say this misfortune is preprogrammed a look at those these people are no scientist