ALEXANDER CHEKMENEV: LILIES Alec Soth’s “I know how

Alec Soth’s “I know how furiously your heart is beating” was created following a period of photographic inactivity

Saul Leiter (1923–2013) has only in recent years finally received his due as one of the great pioneers of color photography

- Erich Lessing

this unique publication brings together five of Soth’s major books in their entirety in a single

isolation and dissociation in everyday life

ALEXANDER CHEKMENEV: LILIES Alec Soth’s “I know howIn 1999, in the psychiatric clinics of the town of Ovruch in Ukraine, Alexander Chekmenev shoots Lilies the series of gripping black and white portraits. The project that has become the classics of Ukrainian photography, sets an important example of the humanistic approach to people, who dont fit in the settled boundaries of normality.