The story behind a portrait of the poet, Zhenia Kemerovskii. Photography by Sergii Solonskyi (Kharkiv) .

 

The work is created in the mid 1990s, 50х60 cm. from photographic negative 6х6.

“I had a friend, Zhenia Kemerovskii, a good poet. Once, he came to visit me. We drank home brew vodka and Zhenia who was short-sighted asked me to open his third eye. It took some time to fiddle with it…”

Sergii Solonskyi