Black Sea of Concrete October 16, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Documentary, Photojournalism , trackbackRafal Milach
From the series “Black Sea of Concrete”
(c) Rafal Milach / Sputnik Photos / Altemus
Congratulations to Rafal Milach on winning the Blurb prize for self published books of $25000. I first met Rafal in Perpignan at Visa Pour L’Image circa 2005 and included his seminal work ‘Young Russia’ in a Metaphor Images projection at the festival Foto Freo in Perth, West Australia in 2006. It was incredibly well received. He is an intensely serious photographer with a great sense of colour and vision and his work continues to collect awards.
Ater graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, and the Institute for Creative Photography in Opava (Czech Republic), Milach moved to Warsaw where he worked as a freelance photographer for Newsweek Poland, Polityka and Przekroj magazine. Rafal Milach continues to work on personal projects such as Young Russia and it is this approach that is bringing him recognition. His work Disappearing Circus has been awarded in contests such as World Press Photo. Recently he won the Photography.Book.Now Grand Prize for his book, Black Sea of Concrete, money which will help him to publish a new book on Russia, He is the co-founder of SPUTNIK, the East European collective of photographers which was commissioned by Altemus, the Belgian NGO to work on the Ukraine project that led to this book, and is represented internationally by the Anzenberger Agency.
Darius Himes, the chief judge of the Blurb award was effusive in his praise of Milach’s work. One specific element of Milach’s book that Himes singled out for praise was the text, which was designed to appear as if it were coming at the reader in waves, a reference to the book’s subject, the Black Sea. Milach collaborated with a designer, Ania Nalecka, on the project. Himes also praised the book for its “strong photography, important subject matter, vigorous edit and intelligent sequencing, combined with a thoughtful attention to those elements that are specifically book-centric, including type treatment, page-layout and cover design.”
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