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Following the demise of the Soviet Union<\/st1:place> in the early 1990’s photojournalists and documentary photographers rushed to pick over what remained of the former empire. Agencies such as Sipa Press, Sygma, Gamma and Magnum – to name just a few – could be relied upon to produce an abundant supply of features that demonstrated the doleful shortcomings of Communist life. Scarcity, despair, poverty, blighted lives and disillusion were regular themes in bodies of work that were, above all else, serious<\/em>. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Yet at the same time an altogether different approach \u2013 one cheerily dismissive of the protocols of documentary decorum \u2013 was adopted by certain \u2018post-communists\u2019 to address those same issues, but in a willfully provocative manner. \u2018Glory Days\u2019, the catalogue of a recent exhibition at Winterthur\u2019s Fotomuseum, presents the work of one such example – Sergey Bratkov – as he <\/span>engages with such conventionally ‘serious’ subjects as militarism, exploitation, political processes and addiction in photographs that are laced with a bitter and anarchic humour. Witness the (literally) bare-arsed cheek of the ‘Elections’ series \u2013 in which the photographer appears posting a ballot paper where it is unlikely to be counted. (On polling day during the ’97 elections he went a stage further and built a booth that housed a pair of modified plastic buttocks \u2013 visitors were invited to post papers up the backside). Equally irreverent are the blackly comic nightmares that comprise ‘Bedtime Stories’ \u2013 a series of macabre vignettes that recall children\u2019s horror tales, and which also functioned as a comment on the perceived increase in underage crime figures.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ukrainian Bratkov was born in industrial Kharkov<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> where he attended art college before graduating in Industrial Electronics at one of the city’s polytechnic academies. Though his earliest solo shows date from the late 80’s, \u2018Glory Days\u2019 takes as a point of departure his work between 1994-97 as a member of the Fast Reaction Group – a collaboration with fellow Ukrainian Boris Mikhailov. Indeed the latter’s extraordinary, controversial and hard-hitting study of post-communist homelessness, Case Study<\/em>, is described as a forerunner to many of Bratkov’s exercises in serial portraiture, Sailors<\/em> and Kids<\/em> amongst them. His worked has achieved international recognition and he has exhibited in the United States<\/st1:country-region>, Europe and South America<\/st1:place>. Since 2001 he has lived and worked in Moscow<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bratkov’s photography eludes easy categorisation, and he often appears to work in order to actively avoid any semblance of a signature style. So, using equipment that ranges from toy cameras to a Sinar 6 x 9.7, he has produced series that embrace portraiture, staged tableaux, forms of street photography, panoramic pictures, and video. But it is perhaps through portraiture that he has most consistently addressed the social issues and stereotypes of post-communist society. In the aftermath of the Kursk<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> submarine tragedy he photographed retired Sailors<\/em> of the Ukrainian navy \u2013 their glory days very much behind them \u2013 dressed bathetically in caps and uniform vests. And in Secretaries<\/em> bikini-clad models rehearsed the clich\u00e9d and worn-out poses of the \u2018glamour\u2019 industry in a glumly prosaic setting. And, most notoriously, in Kids<\/em> Bratkov photographed heavily made-up children in putatively seductive roles. The work was so disturbing it was removed from display at a Cologne Art Fair; whilst in Russia<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> he was summoned to appear before the State Duma\u2019s Ethics Commission. The kids, it transpired, were dressed and \u2018beautified\u2019 by their parents, eager to make them attractive to owners of the newly-emergent child modeling agencies that opened during the 1990\u2019s. Typically, Bratkov used guile, photography and provocation to address contemporary developments and the erosion of the certainties of Soviet life. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Glory Days by Sergey Bratkov<\/span><\/p>\n

Essays by Thomas Seelig, Boris Buden & Bart de Baere <\/span><\/p>\n

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