Odessa has many faces. There is a Russian Odessa, a Jewish Odessa, a Greek Odessa, a port-Odessa, a merchant Odessa, a fashionable Art Nouveau Odessa, the Odessa of the dark inner courtyards and passages, and the Odessa of Babel which does not exist any more: it has been replaced by Odessa, the ghost city as Vsevolod Vlasenko called it on his photo exhibition of 2006.
We begin with his images the presentation of Odessa for the order of Effe, because at the Wang river you can also order from what we have on stock, and how would it be possible not to have on stock at least a little bit of Odessa?
In turn we only ask of him, the great tale-teller, that if some of the images tally with the Odessa living in him, may he write a story to it. Not necessarily now: there will be more occasion later. For Odessa does not only have many faces, but also many good photographers, each of them presenting a different face of her: so we shall return to her more than once.
We begin with his images the presentation of Odessa for the order of Effe, because at the Wang river you can also order from what we have on stock, and how would it be possible not to have on stock at least a little bit of Odessa?
In turn we only ask of him, the great tale-teller, that if some of the images tally with the Odessa living in him, may he write a story to it. Not necessarily now: there will be more occasion later. For Odessa does not only have many faces, but also many good photographers, each of them presenting a different face of her: so we shall return to her more than once.
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