Mishka Bochkarev

I was born in Starokonstantinov, Ukraine in 1989, two years before the fall of the Soviet Union. When I grew up I realised how much its dissolution influenced my own feeling of aesthetics. During childhood years I’ve changed two high schools, where I studied history of art and travelled with my family. It was at that time that I had my first photo and video cameras and started documenting things around me. The area I lived in had industrial buildings and railway tracks, my memory holds those images until today and impacts the perception of my surroundings. Later I studied Public Services in my local Technical College, which unexpectedly started my career as a chef. Ive worked in this sphere for a long time and was in charge of catering for three presidents of Ukraine. I was a cook but still liked to document everything that surrounded me. At some point in my life I decided to leave cooking and devoted all the time to photography and video. I understood that my heart lies in street photography. The ability to make anthropological research, to study environment, peoples’ reactions and emotions amazes me. I explore streets everyday, seeking particular details, which could appear in shadows, wrappers, peoples actions or emotions, or in...