Boris Mikhailov

Boris Mikhailov (1938, Kharkiv) is a key figure of the Kharkiv School of Photography and one of the great masters of contemporary photography. He was educated as an electromechanical engineer. In the mid-1960s Mikhailov joined the photo club at the Regional Trade Union Amateur Arts House. There he met the circle of artists with whom he would form the Vremia group in the early 1970s. Based in Berlin since the early 1990s. Case Study series is among his most known body of work.