A personal exhibition of Alexander Shuleshko “Town. Space of light” was
opened in A.A.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum to the Town’s Day, which is usually
celebrated in the end of September.
Alexander Shuleshko was born in 1962 in Kirovograd. In 1989 graduated from
Kiev technological college, majoring in “phototechnique”
He worked as a photojournalist in Kirovograd regional newspapers “Narodnoe slovo” and
“Vestnik regiona”. Alexander Shuleshko is a member of the National Union of
journalists of Ukraine.
A participant of many regional, all-Ukrainian photo exhibitions and photo
competitions. In 2013 the photographer has taken 1st place on all-Ukrainian photo
competition “Ukraine: a moment of our life”.
More than 30 colour photographs of the town, which were made in the recent
years, are shown at the exhibition. Alexander Shuleshko perceives Kirovograd-Elisavetgrad
in his own, specific way - the town’s paved streets, straight blocks and unique art
nouveau architecture. There a lot of buildings built on the projects by famous
Elisabethgrad architect Yakov Pauchenko among the photographs.
A professional photographer Alexander Shuleshko combines history and
modernity in his works, presenting the image of our town full of colour, in the sunlight
and bright neon lights, sometimes in unexpected angles that make us look at the familiar
with amazed eyes. |