"Great news! We managed to recover 98% of the information," could be the opening line of the story "NA4JOPM8" by Ihor Chekachkov. The project's title is the serial number of a hard drive with a memory capacity of 3TB containing 250,000 photographs, chronicling a decade of work from 2007 onward.
In reality, the recovered files had significant damage: images overlapped one another, distorted by vivid colored stripes. The tragedy was endured in several stages—first by setting the drive aside, then by reviewing all the damaged files, and finally by selecting material from them—transforming into a series, a photobook, and an exhibition.
Ihor Chekachkov describes his approach: "The photography that interests me most is that which I react to without inventing anything." "NA4JOPM8" is a sort of response that initially appears as an intrusion. The series is a reaction to loss, an attempt to come to terms with the destruction of a decade's worth of archives that combined documentary photography with the most personal shots. It realized an artistic vision that Ihor Chekachkov had been nurturing for several years—to connect the private and public within a single photographic image.
"Great news! We managed to recover 98% of the information," could be the opening line of the story "NA4JOPM8" by Ihor Chekachkov. The project's title is the serial number of a hard drive with a memory capacity of 3TB containing 250,000 photographs, chronicling a decade of work from 2007 onward.
In reality, the recovered files had significant damage: images overlapped one another, distorted by vivid colored stripes. The tragedy was endured in several stages—first by setting the drive aside, then by reviewing all the damaged files, and finally by selecting material from them—transforming into a series, a photobook, and an exhibition.
Ihor Chekachkov describes his approach: "The photography that interests me most is that which I react to without inventing anything." "NA4JOPM8" is a sort of response that initially appears as an intrusion. The series is a reaction to loss, an attempt to come to terms with the destruction of a decade's worth of archives that combined documentary photography with the most personal shots. It realized an artistic vision that Ihor Chekachkov had been nurturing for several years—to connect the private and public within a single photographic image.
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