Kirill Golovchenko’s stark photographs capture the lives of Ukraine’s roadside stallholders to striking, often surreal, effectBitter Honeydew begins with a poem, Sun of September, markets and flies, written by the contemporary Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan. It speaks of ordinary things seen in the dog days of summer when memory and loss somehow become more intense. It is a fitting prelude to Kirill Golovchenko’s haunting images of the ubiquitous tochkas – roadside stalls – where traders sell fresh fruit and snacks by the road that skirts the Black Sea in Ukraine. The word tochka, though, also refers to prostitution. … …read more
Source: The Guardian
