Serhii Melnychenko | |
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| Сергій Мельниченко | |
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| Born | 26 October 1991 Mykolaiv, Ukraine |
| Alma mater | Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding |
| Website | melnitchenko |
Serhii Melnychenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Мельниченко, born 26 October 1991, Mykolaiv, Ukraine[1][2]) is a Ukrainian photographer, dancer, master of sports of the international class in ballroom dances (2005).[3] Founder of the school of conceptual and art photography MYPH (2018).[4][2] Member of the creative association Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (2012).[2]
In 2017, he became the first Ukrainian to receive the German Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer.[5][6][7]
Since his teenage years, he has been dancing, performing abroad, in particular in China.[2]
In 2014, graduated from the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding with a specialization — computer systems engineer.[3]
With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he began volunteering.[8][9]
Started photography in 2009.[10][2][3]
In 2012, he rethought his own approach to artistic practice after communicating with Roman Piatkovka, a representative of the Kharkiv School of Photography.[5][10][11]
Author of the series Schwarzenegger is my idol (2012, 2020; book of the same name published),[12][2][13][4] Polaroids from China (2015),[14] From Dusk till Dawn (2015—2017, 2018; a book of the same name was published),[15] Passengers (2017),[16] Young and Free (2017—2021),[17][18] Fundamental Space Explorations of Naked Singularity (2019—2021)[19] and others.
Photos are published in The Independent Photographer,[20] Fisheye Magazine.[21][22]
Works are presented in private and public collections in the US, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Japan, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland etc.[3]