Yuri Kosin (Ukrainian: Косін Юрій Олекса́ндрович; 26 September 1948 – 24 October 2022) was a Ukrainian photographer, lecturer, curator of exhibitions, and traveler. Kosin was a member of the National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine, tutor and curator at the Independent Academy of the Photographic Arts of Ukraine, organizer and curator of the "Eksar" photo gallery, Ukraine. He was also a member of the "Kulturforum" association and the artistic studio "Kulturwerkstatt Trier", Germany. He was a permanent member of the TV Ukrainian program "Svoimi ochima" (eyewitness) dedicated to travel and tourism. Kosin was named one of the experts in photography criticism in Ukraine in expert poll conducted in 2011[1] and was a participant of the Ukrainian New Wave.
Biography
Photo Father by Yuri Kosin-1995
Kosin was born on 26 September 1948 in Kompaniivka, at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (today in the Kirovohrad Oblast of central Ukraine). In 1974 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. For some time he worked as an engineer, but later he became fond of art and photography. In 1988 he graduated from Kiev Institute of Journalism. In 1977 he was co-curator of
avant-garde association «Rukh»(«Movement») and underground exhibition, in which were artists: Mikola Trehub, Vudon Baklitsky, Alexander Kostetsky, Olena Golub, Nicholas Zalevsky and others.[2] Later Kosin organized a lot of exhibitions, mostly photography, both his personally and for groups.
Kosin later lived in Irpin (Kyiv region, Ukraine). His daughter Vera Kosina is a photographer too. She lives and works in Poland. Yuri Kosin died on 24 October 2022, at the age of 74.[3]
Achievements in photography
Cover of the Aleksievich book with photo by Yuri Kosin-2016Cover of the book Transgression by Yuri Kosin-2019Cover of the photo album Ukraine through the eyes of Ukraine by Yuri Kosin-2005Cover of the book I've seen - photo by Yuri Kosin-2016
Since 1987 Yuri Kosin has participated in over 40 joint exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belarus, Slovakia, the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Lithuania and France.[4] Many of his works are included in private collections in Switzerland, the United States, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. There are also some of Kosin's pictures placed in The Photography Fund in Moscow, the Latvian Museum of Photography in Riga, Lancaster University, the National Historical Museum of Ukraine. For over 20 years Yuri Kosin has been engaged in organizing photo exhibitions of Ukrainian artists.
In the 1980s, Yuri Kosin created his own artistic method which was subsequently named the "transgression". From 1980 to 1990, "transgression" was achieved by a partial physical and chemical destruction of the emulsion.[citation needed]
Personal exhibitions
1988 – "Interconnection", exhibition hall of the association of artists of Ukraine, Kiev, Soviet Union
1990 – "Infected Zone", Budinok Pismennika, Kiev, Soviet Union
1991 – "The world we lost", "Kinocentr", Moscow, Soviet Union
1992 – "Chernobyl", International art gallery, Minneapolis, USA
Action Tour "Chernobyl – meeting place", Great Britain USA
Performance "Meeting place" (“First Moment of Plague"), Andrievskiy uzviz, Kiev, Ukraine
1994 – Performance "Building model of contemporary mind" Irpin, Ukraine
"Live pictures", museum "Kyiv Fortress", Kyiv, Ukraine
1995 – "Transgression", Creative academy "Bezalel", Jerusalem, Israel
"Chernobyl 1986–1995", House of three languages, Lumen, Belgium
