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Restricted
Areas Series
Danila Tkachenko
Arts
Photography
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The thematic and objective approach to
the subjects of the images of Tkachenko
frame his work in the field of documentary
photography. In his still brief career, the
young Russian has already received several
awards, including the European Publishers
Award for Photography in 2015 thanks to
his series ‘Restricted Areas,’ where he travels
through almost artificial environments where
the pursuit of technological progress has been
frustrated and halted in time by multiple
causes – nuclear wars, economic crises,
natural disasters, etc. – turning them into
abandoned and deserted places, witnesses of
a technocratic utopia that never arrived.
Danila Tkachenko
(Moscow, 1989) shows
an almost archaeological
concern in his ‘Restricted
Areas’ series, examining
the utopian quest for
technological progress
that was once of national
interest for the USSR.
Su temática y la aproximación objetiva al
sujeto enmarcan el trabajo Tkachenko en el
campo de la fotografía documental. En su
todavía corta trayectoria, el joven ruso ha
recibido ya importantes premios: si su serie
‘Escape’ fue premiada en el World Press
Photo de 2014, en 2015 ganó el European
Publishers Award for Photography gracias a
‘Restricted Areas’, donde recorre escenarios
en los que la búsqueda del progreso
tecnológico quedó paralizada en el tiempo
por desastres nucleares, crisis económicas,
catástrofes naturales, etc., convirtiéndose en
lugares abandonados y desiertos, testigos de
una utopía tecnocrática que nunca llegó.
En la serie ‘Restricted
areas’, Danila Tkachenko
(Moscú, 1989)
muestra una inquietud
arqueológica al examinar
los vestigios del progreso
tecnológico que un
día definió el interés
nacional soviético.
