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PHOTO-EYE BEST BOOKS 2018
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Rafal Milach's favorite book from 2018

Human

Hungarian photographer Arion Gabor Kudasz uses twisted measurements and deformed brick to describe contemporary space in Eastern Europe. His investigated construct is based upon errors and mistakes and seems to have no chance to be sustained. Human is a labyrinth of forms in the process of becoming or decay that the author desperately tries to systematize. The collection of abandoned housing investments, post-industrial ruins, construction warehouses, and worker’s portraits creates an image of dysfunctional mechanisms. Kudasz uses the human body and deformed brick modules to set the new hierarchy, which can be perceived as a metaphor of the shift in fundamental values that Hungary and other countries in Eastern Europe are facing today.


Rafal Milach is an artist, photographer, and lecturer based in Warsaw, Poland. He is a founder of the Sputnik Photos collective and a nominee member of Magnum Photos. Rafal Milach’s monographs include: The Winners (GOST 2014), 7 Rooms (Kehrer 2011), In the car with R (Czytelnia Sztuki 2012) and The First March of Gentlemen (GOST 2018). rafalmilach.com
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Rafal Milach's favorite book from 2018

EVOKATIV

EVOKATIV is a manifesto of personal freedom put against the political context of communist Czechoslovakia. Libuše Jarcovjáková is a strong female voice liberating both the body and space from the oppressive look. Intimate becomes public, personal becomes political, the body becomes the weapon. The artist takes a position and joins the global discourse at the turbulent times when human rights and freedoms are under threat. One of the most moving books I’ve seen in years.


Rafal Milach is an artist, photographer, and lecturer based in Warsaw, Poland. He is a founder of the Sputnik Photos collective and a nominee member of Magnum Photos. Rafal Milach’s monographs include: The Winners (GOST 2014), 7 Rooms (Kehrer 2011), In the car with R (Czytelnia Sztuki 2012), and The First March of Gentlemen (GOST 2018).
rafalmilach.com
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Rafal Milach's favorite book from 2018

Personal Belongings 1: Father

Is it possible to loose someone who was never really present? This book is a goodbye visual poem to a father who passed away. It’s about all the conversations that never happened and about the bond that has never been born. This book is an almost ephemeral object, it flows through the hands and it ends abruptly like the story of a ghost father.


Rafal Milach is a visual artist, activist, photographer and educator. His work focuses on the tension between society and power structures. Author of photographic publications critically examining the control systems and strategies of protest. A key focal point of his current artistic practice is the clash between non-heroic gestures and ostensibly neutral spaces, which are in fact set against a political background of current events. The oppressive nature of the areas Milach investigates is reflected in architecture, objects, and suitably formatted social structures. Rafal is a co-founder of The Archive of Public Protests and Sputnik Photos collectives. He is a member of the Magnum Photos agency.
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Rafal Milach's favorite book from 2018

Abzgram

The book by Karolina Wojtas is both beautiful and painful. The artist managed to camouflage the critical view on Polish education system under the flow of colourful and somehow surreal images. Mysterious performances and site specific installations, mixed with low quality propagandistic found footage construct a frowsty space of the school. This world is dysfunctional and the book as an object reflects that very well.


Rafal Milach is a visual artist, activist, photographer and educator. His work focuses on the tension between society and power structures. Author of photographic publications critically examining the control systems and strategies of protest. A key focal point of his current artistic practice is the clash between non-heroic gestures and ostensibly neutral spaces, which are in fact set against a political background of current events. The oppressive nature of the areas Milach investigates is reflected in architecture, objects, and suitably formatted social structures. Rafal is a co-founder of The Archive of Public Protests and Sputnik Photos collectives. He is a member of the Magnum Photos agency.