CAXAP/Zucker - Zwölf Tage in Odessa
(Exhibition and catalogue)

In September 2003, the Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov traveled with Helfried Strauß (Professor at the AVA) and 15 selected students of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig to Odessa for twelve days. The resultant work is complex and multi-layered. The pictures were made in spontaneous encounters between pedestrians and the photographers. The mutual interest of both sides lead to intense moments, captured in the medium of photography. In topographic tableaus, living picture essays, moving portrait series, the young photographers present their view of the city, its people and their everyday environment. The selected works have been published in a catalogue and exhibited i.e in the Kunsthalle Villa Kobe in Halle, in the Gallery Aspekte in Munich, as well as at the International Photography Festival in Leipzig.

Catalogue: ›CAXAP/Zucker – Zwölf Tage in Odessa‹, Deutscher Kunstverlag München Berlin und Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, 2005

Participating artists: Boris Mikhailov, Helfried Strauß, Johanna Diehl, Mirjam Dröge, Loretta Fahrenholz, Michael Fandel, Panja Hillert, Klaus Kamptner, Leo Kaufmann, Emanuel Mathias, Philipp Moritz, Stefan Passig, Catharine Rocke, Florian Roßmanith, Anne Schumann, Tina Smrekar, Markus Uhr