Eugene Mokhorev
Gleb Yershov, Ph.d.
Mokhorev
Photographing nearly naked bodies of teenagers—lanky and angular boys and girls—Mokhorev manages to glimpse their inner selves without making the image a beautiful, yet vulgar, nude. His works are defined by his tactful eye, the simple human understanding of teenagers, the majority of whom are "difficult." It remains a mystery how he achieves this effect, considering that the frame is elaborately staged, the set-up is somewhat artificial, and the models pose for their portraits. Although the symbolic background of this trope, juvenile boys, is sizable and relegates one to turn-of-the-century art, with its decadent kinkiness and frailty, the images in Mokhorev’s photographs are devoid of artificiality. On the contrary, they are strikingly purist, the solutions are unsophisticated, the cardinal point being man all by himself against the whole world.
NY ARTS: As international circumstances are continually changing the experience of youth, how is your photography influenced? How have you worked to incorporate these experiences?
Mokhorev: I rely only on my own experience. Period.
NY ARTS: What is the role of "innocence" in the work?
Mokhorev: This term gives me nothing.
NY ARTS: What about that of pornography? pedaphelia? voyeyrism?
Mokhorev: My attitude to pornography and voyeurism is the same as to a shadow that an object casts when blocking direct rays of light.
Courtesy of Russkialbum.ru
