citylikeyou — Kiev / Sasha Kurmaz

Street-artist and photographer, Sasha Kurmaz, was born in 1986, Kiev, Ukraine. “I’m trying to examine the structure of my own feelings, visible and invisible processes that occur in me, naked body, relationship between people, concept of “beauty” and “reality”, love and feelings – is a big part of my works.” Currently lives and works in Kiev.

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Kiev / Market

The biggest and most famous flea-market in Kiev. I love this place. In the market you can find any unexpected things like player on plates, antiques, dishes, trash-toys, old cameras, brands with profile of Hitler, Soviet cards, wheel of car, pirate porn video and many, many others.

Kiev / Museum

National Science and Natural History Museum National Academy Sciences of Ukraine – one of the largest natural history science museums in the world. Established in 1966, the museum is situated in the heart of Kiev, in old house with an expressive architecture. More than 30 thousand exhibits that tell story about the origin, structure and evolution of the Earth, its flora and fauna, its past and present, about history of material culture of tribes and peoples who inhabited the territory of Ukraine. Super place, where you can learn a lot about the history and take picture of girls in a cave.

Kiev / Place

One of the most secret and most ambitious construction projects in Kiev, 30-40 years of the XX century. It had to be rail tunnel under the Dnieper river. Works on creation tunnel were suspended because of the second world war. Stalin had idea to build two tunnels under Dnipro - North and South, who were to provide communication between the banks.

Kiev / Market

One of the first second-hand market in Kiev. Formed in the early of 2000s. Most popular places of Kiev youth. Very often I'm find very cheep, and cool clothes. For example, for $3 I'm bought belt YSL, and shirt Chanel.

Kiev / Place

Very funny that the number of floor where this sculpture is consonant american psychedelic rock band - "13-th Floor Elevators", from Austin, Texas. Perhaps this work would be good musicplate illustration for this band. Anyway, this photo from 13-th floor of house in the Troyeshchyna area in which lives, author of this fantastic surealistic sculpture – Tatiana Peak. Tatiana says that she make – "programming structure of space." At this point you can consider for hours and find more and more details, lots of artificial plants, jewelry, there are several icons, sculptures, painted an icon of Jesus Christ, the naked girl in the niche, the ass of "Shrek," and Virgin Mary. One of the strangest and most mysterious places in Kiev.

Toronto / Photographer

Cristian's work is a dialogue between photography, graphic design, and printed matter. Born in Santiago in 1976, based in Toronto, Canada. His latest limited edition, self-published book "Other Voices" was recently selected to be exhibited at the Benaki Museum, in Greece, as part of the Athens Photo Festival 2019. His first book “A Way to Disconnect and Connect” was published by Daga Editions in 2017. Cristian's work has been shown in exhibitions and publications internationally. He was recently invited to direct a PhotoBook workshop at VU Photo, in Québec City (Canada), and write an essay about Sergio Larrain’s photographic work for the book 100x100 curated by Patricio Pozo (Chile). Currently, Cristian splits his time working independently on personal art projects, graphic design, and photographic assignments. Since 2016, he has collaborated as Art Director for the architecture publication Azure Magazine and teaches in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University in Toronto.

Zürich / Photographer

Peter Hauser is freelance photographer, artist and founder of Püré Bildmagazin and currently based in Zurich. He studied photography and fine arts at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag (NL) and graduated in photography and fine arts at the Zurich School of the Arts (ZHdK). He both works on comissions and personal projects, such as fanzines, field recordings burnig good schnaps and boxing.

Los Angeles / Photographer

Dutch born photographer Gijs van der Most is based in Los Angeles. Since he switched Amsterdam for Los Angeles about two years ago, he's been quickly becoming a favorite in the downtown Los Angeles photography scene. Gijs’ photography is direct, personal, and sometimes with a little wink. He's fascinated by people, their behavior and their environment. His documentary projects include “Used Car Salesmen”, “Yard Sales”, “Sign Jugglers”, and his most recent project " I ♥ Runyon Canyon". Even though Van der Most works are displayed in series, he doesn't waste a single image. Gijs has co-created the blog “van der THIS! “, with his comedian/writer wife Michelle Buteau fusing the photography and comedy world into a miniseries that is eye catching as well as entertaining. His passion for great imagery hasn’t been unnoticed by the popular style, culture, and design blog www.kaufmann-mercantile.com. Where he currently is working as photo editor.

London / Photographer

Adam graduated from Leeds College of Art with a 1st class degree in Visual Communications. He has assisted on shoots for Vogue, Tatler, Elle, Marie Claire and many more and has built an impressive portfolio of work. Adam's photography is beautifully coloured and lit. He has an exceptional eye for mood. Creating works with maturity and emotion.

Stockholm / Fashion Photographer

Creative Director & Content; photography, film, & sketches.

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