Roman Pyatkovka

Roman Pyatkovka (; born 1955 in Kharkiv)

Biography Pyatkovka studied electroenergetics at Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and lighting design at Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. He worked for at the Young Spectator's Theatre in Kharkiv between 1979 and 1984 before dedicating himself more fully to photography. He joined the National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine in 1989 and later began teaching at VN Karazin Kharkiv National University. The Navigator Foundation in Boston; and ARTOTHEK in Nürnberg. His work appears in books including Toisinnäkijät (1988), Co je Fotografie (1989), Un Nouveau Pausage Humain (1998), Kharkov. Khronika Pevolyutsii (2005), Foto estafeta. Ot Rodchenko do nashikh dney (2006) Le portrait dans l'art contemporain (2010), Nude Art Today (third edition; 2012), Eyemazing: The New Collectible Art Photography (2013), and Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera (2014).

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