Black Sea of Concrete (signed + print - last copy)

by Rafal Milach

Photographs: Rafal Milach

Text: Rafal Milach

Publisher: selfpublished

76 pages

Pictures: 27 colour illustrations

Year: 2013

Comments: collector's edition of 300 copies signed and numbered + signed print; Size of the book: 335×270 mm, Size of the print: 210 ×265 mm. Design by Ania Nalecka/TBD

sold out

The first thing you notice by the sea is the concrete. Kilometers of grey blocks sometimes painted with blue and yellow, the national colors of Ukraine. You can feel the soviet past at once. It looks surreal and it doesn't match the beautiful landscape that surrounds you. Industrial zones and the iron waste by the sea don't remind harmonic idyll between nature and man. People have changed the landscape in a very brutal way here. But the sea fights back for its natural shape and territory. Local people seem to respect the power of the sea. Nevertheless at he same time they thoughtlessly devastate it. This wired symbiosis makes this piece of land fascinating. I went to the Ukrainian Black Sea coast to explore this mutual influence and relation between the man and sea. Ukraine is the country in transition and for the last few years has been looking for its new identity. In my opinion so has the Black Sea coast.


Rafal Milach is a member of the Sputnik Photos collective.

More books by Rafal Milach

• 

  7 Rooms (last copy)
  by Rafal Milach
  sold out

• 

  In the Car with R
  by Rafal Milach
  sold out

• 

  In the Car with R (signed - last copy)
  by Rafal Milach
  Euro 450

• 

  In the Car with R (signed + print - last copy)
  by Rafal Milach
  Euro 770

• 

  7 Rooms (signed + print)
  by Rafal Milach
  Euro 770

• 

  The Grey
  by Rafal Milach
  sold out

• 

  7 Rooms (second edition)
  by Rafal Milach
  sold out

• 

  HOUSE 2012/2013 (signed+print - last copies)
  by Rafal Milach
  Euro 110

• 

  The Winners (signed)
  by Rafal Milach
  sold out

• 

  The First March of Gentlemen (signed - last copy)
  by Rafal Milach
  sold out

• 

  The First March of Gentlemen (book + print)
  by Rafal Milach
  sold out

• 

  Strike (signed)
  by Rafal Milach
  sold out

more books tagged »Black Sea« | >> see all

• 

  Empty land, Promised land, Forbidden land (signed)
  by Rob Hornstra
  sold out

more books tagged »sea« | >> see all

• 

  Adventures in the Nearby Far Away
  by Ed Templeton
  sold out

• 

  Lupimaris (with net cover, signed)
  by Christian Stemper
  sold out

• 

  Lupimaris (book + print - last copy)
  by Christian Stemper
  Euro 120

• 

  blue as gold (last copy)
  by Nicolo Degiorgis
  sold out

• 

  PROMISING WATERS (signed)
  by Mila Teshaieva
  sold out

• 

  Life's a Beach
  by Martin Parr
  sold out

more books tagged »post-Soviet« | >> see all

• 

  Space . Exhibit. Museum Conservator. (book+print)
  by Alla Afonina/ Vera Laponkina
  Euro 145

• 

  Venten på i går - Auf gestern warten (signed) - used copy
  by Krass Clement
  Euro 125 100.00

• 

  Feud (book + print) - used copy
  by Olga Matveeva
  Euro 100 60.00

• 

  Feud (signed)
  by Olga Matveeva
  Euro 39

• 

  RESTRICTED AREAS
  by Danila Tkachenko
  sold out

• 

  Feud (book + print)
  by Olga Matveeva
  Euro 100

more books tagged »Polish« | >> see all

• 

  Some Things are Quieter than Others (signed)
  by Jacek Fota
  Euro 29 17.40

• 

  Witty Kiwi Mag: Issue 1
  by various photographers
  sold out

• 

  U
  by Sputnik Photos
  Euro 165

• 

  IS(not) (signed - last copies)
  by Sputnik Photos
  Euro 150

• 

  Post-war Stories
  by Claudia Heinermann / Michael Iwanowski / Indre Serpytyte
  sold out

• 

  KARCZEBY
  by Adam Panczuk
  sold out

more books tagged »magnum photographer« | >> see all

• 

  The Afronauts
  by Cristina de Middel
  sold out

• 

  One Picture Book 88 : Bogotá Funsaver (signed + print)
  by Alec Soth
  sold out

• 

  The World From My Front Porch
  by Larry Towell
  sold out

• 

  Small World (signed)
  by Martin Parr
  sold out

• 

  Bad Weather (signed)
  by Martin Parr
  sold out

• 

  Think of Scotland (signed)
  by Martin Parr
  Euro 38.50

more books tagged »Eastern Europe« | >> see all

• 

  Vienkiemio godos (signed)
  by Rimaldas Viksraitis
  sold out

• 

  If I exorcise my devils my angels may leave too - Eclisse # 5 ...
  by Nemanja Pančić & Marco Risović
  sold out

• 

  Boiko (signed + print)
  by Jan Brykczynski
  sold out

• 

  The Sundays of Life (signed)
  by Bela Doka
  Euro 88 70.40

• 

  Light years, or silhouettes with light-cycle
  by Minψó Szert
  Euro 20

• 

  Focus on Belarus (signed)
  by Andrei Liankevich
  sold out

more books tagged »landscape« | >> see all

• 

  Does Yellow Run Forever?
  by Paul Graham
  Euro 39

• 

  Landscapes & Memory
  by Jo Röttger
  Euro 35

• 

  Straßen und Wege (last copy)
  by Bernhard Fuchs
  Euro 165

• 

  Inner Mongolia (2nd edition)
  by Ekaterina Anokhina
  sold out

• 

  In the fields of gold
  by Miquel Llonch
  sold out

• 

  Coastline (signed)
  by Xiao Zhang
  sold out

Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com

• 
  Daido Moriyama - Scandalous
  
• 
  Masahisa Fukase - Yugi (Homo Lud...
  
• 
  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - Malerei, Fo...
  
• 
  David Goldblatt - Particulars