Sergey Chilikov
Born in 1953. Lives in Yoshkar-Ola. From 1976 has been working in the sphere of photography in the group of well-know photographers – “Fact”. Organiser of “Analytical Exhibitions of Photography (Biennale)” 1980-1983 and annual photographic plein air events “In Kundysh” from 1980 to the present. Publisher of the book “Photography of Yoshkar-Ola” 1985. In 1988 – the summary exhibition of the group “Fact” in Moscow “On Kashirka”. From 2001 collaborated with the Moscow House of Photography – participation in international festivals.
Holiday of small town
The story about the Celebration of a Small Town appeared in the town of Velsk which is situated in the south of the Archangelsk region. This, “the celebration of the town”, common for every self-respecting little place, occurs once a year — in Velsk in the last weekend of June. For four years I have been coming here on the invitation of my friends, photographers, in order to exchange something in a friendly way and there was no specific aspiration to necessarily make a purposeful work.
But in 2007 it suddenly happened that, instead of a friendly drink, I went into a mass of people and began to praise the quiet peoples’ festive wanderings. Turning circles round and round on the relatively small space where those celebrating concentrated, I followed everything which in the least way attracted, and without much thought captured moments of human passing. I had already tried the method of spontaneous shooting in 1982 at the 1st of May procession through Brezhnev’s Moscow. Then it led to an obviously anti-communist result. Now, not having any ideological thoughts, I shot with a wide film camera on the move, being excited exclusively by the movement and emotion of the crowd.
And this sense of joyful peoples’ colourfulness I wanted to communicate in the finally completed work.
Sergei Chilikov
Сергей Чиликов. Из серии Праздник маленького городка. 2006–2007. 50 фотографий, 20х20 каждая. Сourtesy автор / Sergey Chilikov. From the series Holiday of small town. 2006–2007. Foto. 50 items, 20х20 cm. each. Сourtesy author
Сергей Чиликов. Из серии Праздник маленького городка. 2006–2007. 50 фотографий, 20х20 каждая. Сourtesy автор / Sergey Chilikov. From the series Holiday of small town. 2006–2007. Foto. 50 items, 20х20 cm. each. Сourtesy author
Сергей Чиликов. Из серии Праздник маленького городка. 2006–2007. 50 фотографий, 20х20 каждая. Сourtesy автор / Sergey Chilikov. From the series Holiday of small town. 2006–2007. Foto. 50 items, 20х20 cm. each. Сourtesy author
Сергей Чиликов. Из серии Праздник маленького городка. 2006–2007. 50 фотографий, 20х20 каждая. Сourtesy автор / Sergey Chilikov. From the series Holiday of small town. 2006–2007. Foto. 50 items, 20х20 cm. each. Сourtesy author
Сергей Чиликов. Из серии Праздник маленького городка. 2006–2007. 50 фотографий, 20х20 каждая. Сourtesy автор / Sergey Chilikov. From the series Holiday of small town. 2006–2007. Foto. 50 items, 20х20 cm. each. Сourtesy author
Сергей Чиликов. Из серии Праздник маленького городка. 2006–2007. 50 фотографий, 20х20 каждая. Сourtesy автор / Sergey Chilikov. From the series Holiday of small town. 2006–2007. Foto. 50 items, 20х20 cm. each. Сourtesy author
Сергей Чиликов. Из серии Праздник маленького городка. 2006–2007. 50 фотографий, 20х20 каждая. Сourtesy автор / Sergey Chilikov. From the series Holiday of small town. 2006–2007. Foto. 50 items, 20х20 cm. each. Сourtesy author
Сергей Чиликов. Из серии Праздник маленького городка. 2006–2007. 50 фотографий, 20х20 каждая. Сourtesy автор / Sergey Chilikov. From the series Holiday of small town. 2006–2007. Foto. 50 items, 20х20 cm. each. Сourtesy author
Сергей Чиликов. Из серии Праздник маленького городка. 2006–2007. 50 фотографий, 20х20 каждая. Сourtesy автор / Sergey Chilikov. From the series Holiday of small town. 2006–2007. Foto. 50 items, 20х20 cm. each. Сourtesy author
Сергей Чиликов. Из серии Праздник маленького городка. 2006–2007. 50 фотографий, 20х20 каждая. Сourtesy автор / Sergey Chilikov. From the series Holiday of small town. 2006–2007. Foto. 50 items, 20х20 cm. each. Сourtesy author