The Boikos are a strange community that can be found throughout the Carpathian range, in Ukraine. They are a little quiet. Unable to speak for themselves. Polish photographer Jan Brykczyński has captured the beauty of these people from out of time in their daily life during winter and spring. Some images are not far from Flemish paintings of the 16th century. The Boiko project was photographed between 2009 and 2012 in the village of Karpatskoye in Lviv province in western Ukraine.
Jan Brykczyński says: “Boiko villages in the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains perfectly sum up my idea of rural life in all its primeval form. There I found myself in a world where events have magical causes, where white magic confronts black magic, and good struggles with evil – in a world I knew only from the fairy tales I was told as a child.”
Jan Brykczynski, Boiko
April 8 to May 8, 2017
As part of the Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris
Little Big Galerie
45 rue Lepic
75018 Paris
France
