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Gardens of Eternity
Authors: Kirill Ovchinnikov, Evgenia Killikh
Photobook
Moscow, 2016
Gardens of Eternity is a handmade artist's photobook, produced in only two copies - one in Russian and one in English. Printed in a 24 × 30 cm landscape format, the book comprises approximately 200 pages.
The project is built around photographs made by Kirill Ovchinnikov between 2007 and 2015 during numerous journeys across Morocco. Alongside the photographs are the memories and diary entries of Evgenia Killikh - film director and the photographer's wife - which form an essential part of the narrative.
This is neither a travel guide nor a book of practical advice for
Photobook
Moscow, 2016
Gardens of Eternity is a handmade artist's photobook, produced in only two copies - one in Russian and one in English. Printed in a 24 × 30 cm landscape format, the book comprises approximately 200 pages.
The project is built around photographs made by Kirill Ovchinnikov between 2007 and 2015 during numerous journeys across Morocco. Alongside the photographs are the memories and diary entries of Evgenia Killikh - film director and the photographer's wife - which form an essential part of the narrative.
This is neither a travel guide nor a book of practical advice for
visitors. It is not an ethnographic study, nor a documentary survey of the country. Instead, it is an autobiographical story told primarily through photographs, and partly through words. It is the authors' reflection on life itself and an attempt to understand and reinterpret a period of time experienced together in a particular place.
The narrative is inspired by the Qur'anic sura Jannat al-Khuld ("Gardens of Eternity"), which describes Paradise. Gardens of Eternity is therefore both a story of Paradise and a story of love - the story of how two ordinary people, the authors of this book, met and fell in love.
The book's first narrative layer is composed of photographs made on large- and medium-format film (4×5 inch and 6×6 cm), in both colour and black and white. It also incorporates a
The narrative is inspired by the Qur'anic sura Jannat al-Khuld ("Gardens of Eternity"), which describes Paradise. Gardens of Eternity is therefore both a story of Paradise and a story of love - the story of how two ordinary people, the authors of this book, met and fell in love.
The book's first narrative layer is composed of photographs made on large- and medium-format film (4×5 inch and 6×6 cm), in both colour and black and white. It also incorporates a
panoramic photographic technique developed by the photographer over seven years of travel, together with selected frames from documentary films created by the authors.
The authors themselves never appear in the photographs. Instead, the images reveal a world seen through their eyes - not the vast world in its entirety, but a small, intimate one, confined within the boundaries of the frame, almost painterly in its appearance and, to a considerable extent, shaped by imagination.
The second narrative layer is formed by memories and diary entries, while the third consists of the photographer's marginal notes - an attempt to understand and articulate the creative process itself, as well as the thoughts and reflections that accompany the act of making photographs.
The authors themselves never appear in the photographs. Instead, the images reveal a world seen through their eyes - not the vast world in its entirety, but a small, intimate one, confined within the boundaries of the frame, almost painterly in its appearance and, to a considerable extent, shaped by imagination.
The second narrative layer is formed by memories and diary entries, while the third consists of the photographer's marginal notes - an attempt to understand and articulate the creative process itself, as well as the thoughts and reflections that accompany the act of making photographs.
Authors: Kirill Ovchinnikov, Evgenia Killikh
Photobook
Moscow, 2016
Gardens of Eternity is a handmade artist's photobook, produced in only two copies - one in Russian and one in English. Printed in a 24 × 30 cm landscape format, the book comprises approximately 200 pages.
The project is built around photographs made by Kirill Ovchinnikov between 2007 and 2015 during numerous journeys across Morocco. Alongside the photographs are the memories and diary entries of Evgenia Killikh - film director and the photographer's wife - which form an essential part of the narrative.
This is neither a travel guide nor a book of practical advice for visitors. It is not an ethnographic study, nor a documentary survey of the country. Instead, it is an autobiographical story told primarily through photographs, and partly through words. It is the authors' reflection on life itself and an attempt to understand and reinterpret a period of time experienced together in a particular place.
The narrative is inspired by the Qur'anic sura Jannat al-Khuld ("Gardens of Eternity"), which describes Paradise. Gardens of Eternity is therefore both a story of Paradise and a story of love - the story of how two ordinary people, the authors of this book, met and fell in love.
The book's first narrative layer is composed of photographs made on large- and medium-format film (4×5 inch and 6×6 cm), in both colour and black and white. It also incorporates a panoramic photographic technique developed by the photographer over seven years of travel, together with selected frames from documentary films created by the authors.
The authors themselves never appear in the photographs. Instead, the images reveal a world seen through their eyes - not the vast world in its entirety, but a small, intimate one, confined within the boundaries of the frame, almost painterly in its appearance and, to a considerable extent, shaped by imagination.
The second narrative layer is formed by memories and diary entries, while the third consists of the photographer's marginal notes - an attempt to understand and articulate the creative process itself, as well as the thoughts and reflections that accompany the act of making photographs.
Photobook
Moscow, 2016
Gardens of Eternity is a handmade artist's photobook, produced in only two copies - one in Russian and one in English. Printed in a 24 × 30 cm landscape format, the book comprises approximately 200 pages.
The project is built around photographs made by Kirill Ovchinnikov between 2007 and 2015 during numerous journeys across Morocco. Alongside the photographs are the memories and diary entries of Evgenia Killikh - film director and the photographer's wife - which form an essential part of the narrative.
This is neither a travel guide nor a book of practical advice for visitors. It is not an ethnographic study, nor a documentary survey of the country. Instead, it is an autobiographical story told primarily through photographs, and partly through words. It is the authors' reflection on life itself and an attempt to understand and reinterpret a period of time experienced together in a particular place.
The narrative is inspired by the Qur'anic sura Jannat al-Khuld ("Gardens of Eternity"), which describes Paradise. Gardens of Eternity is therefore both a story of Paradise and a story of love - the story of how two ordinary people, the authors of this book, met and fell in love.
The book's first narrative layer is composed of photographs made on large- and medium-format film (4×5 inch and 6×6 cm), in both colour and black and white. It also incorporates a panoramic photographic technique developed by the photographer over seven years of travel, together with selected frames from documentary films created by the authors.
The authors themselves never appear in the photographs. Instead, the images reveal a world seen through their eyes - not the vast world in its entirety, but a small, intimate one, confined within the boundaries of the frame, almost painterly in its appearance and, to a considerable extent, shaped by imagination.
The second narrative layer is formed by memories and diary entries, while the third consists of the photographer's marginal notes - an attempt to understand and articulate the creative process itself, as well as the thoughts and reflections that accompany the act of making photographs.
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