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Michal Chelbin: Two Athletes, Ukraine, 2006

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Two Athletes, Ukraine is from Michal Chelbin’s Strangely Familiar series, a body of work featuring performers and wrestlers in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, England, and Israel.


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“The images in this series are an attempt to capture human stories in everyday life, those that exist in the space between the odd and the ordinary.”—Michal Chelbin

Chelbin's most frequent subjects are children and adolescents, as in the case of Two Athletes. As she states, “My aim is to record a scene where there is a mixture of direct information and enigmas and in which there are visual contrasts between young and old, large and small, normal and abnormal. My playground lies between the private and the public, between fiction and documentary.”

Details

C-Print
Image Size: 11 × 11 in.
Paper Size: 20 × 16 in.
Edition of 30 and 5 Artist’s Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

About the Artist

Michal Chelbin (b. 1974, Haifa, Israel) has lived in Brooklyn since 2006. Chelbin studied photography at WIZO Academy of Design and Education in Haifa from 1997 to 2001. Her work has appeared internationally in group and solo shows in Israel, Los Angeles, New York. Chelbin's work is held in many private and public collections, such as The Metropolitan Museum, New York; Sir Elton John collection; LACMA, Los Angeles; Getty Center, Los Angeles; The Jewish Museum, New York; Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and SF Moma. Her Monograph, Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and Other Traveling Troupes (Aperture, 2008) was awarded PDN's Photo Annual Book Award in 2009. Michal regularly contributes to the world’s leading magazines, including The New York Times magazine, The New Yorker, BusinessWeek, GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, Le Monde, among others.

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Michal Chelbin: Two Athletes, Ukraine, 2006
Michal Chelbin: Two Athletes, Ukraine, 2006 Sale price$1,500.00