Many of these buildings – which include the Regional State Administration building, the National University, the National Academic Opera Theatre, the Derzhprom state industry building and a Neo-Byzantine cathedral – appear to have been deliberately targeted, in an attack on Ukrainian architectural and cultural heritage. In June this year, UNESCO reported that as many as 151 sites across Ukraine have been damaged by bombing, listing 40 in Kharkiv. It has sustained near-daily bombardment by land and air. When Vladimir Putin’s attack on the country began in February 2022, the city was one of the Russian troops’ first targets. Kharkiv is located near the Russian border, directly south of Moscow (the exhibition’s press release is simply a QR code that links to its location on Google Maps). Seen from the vantage point of its citizens, each image represents a ground-level view of the former capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The show features work from photographic series spanning three decades of Mikhailov’s career. In the two-part exhibition ‘Charkiv’, this summer, Guido Costa Projects in Turin presents photographs by Boris Mikhailov, which were taken in his home city of Kharkiv, the second-largest in Ukraine.
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