Oleksii Karpovych, Artist-in-residency December-January

We are happy to announce a special guest! Oleksii will be staying in our residency for a period during December to January. The main goal of his residency is to create and publish documentation of Platform’s project Ljudfest in December.

With his artistic vision and unique perspective his documentation will be a crucial part of the event and we are happy to welcome you to Platform!

Karpovych has worked in the field of cultural journalism since 2007 as photographer, editor and writer for publications such as Afisha, Ukrainian Pravda, Life, ACC (Architecture. Criticism. Culture), Cultprostir, Jazz Forum in Poland, and I Rock Jazz in the US. He is founder and art director of the Ukrainian online platform for improvisational music Meloport, since 2017. Since February 24th 2022 he has been working as a photographer for projects such as Ukrainer, and as a fixer and local producer for international media such as BBC and Aljazeera Arabia.

Currently, the main thing for Oleksii is reportage, photographing current events during the war and in the socio-cultural field, volunteering, military topics with military personnel, which he cannot publicly exhibit at the moment.

@oleksii_karpovych @o.karpovych.photo