Boris Mikhailov’s work as a bookmaker is defined by sequences, series, gaps, cuts, and forms of montage.

His photographic books and book drafts — many of them existing only as unique original copies — form an intimate and unconventional retrospective of his practice.

This volume presents the artist’s books Krymskaja Fotomanija / Crimean Photomania and Mountains as facsimiles, each comprising 128 pages, accompanied by an 80-page illustrated text section. The structure makes visible how Mikhailov develops photography not through isolated images, but through rhythm, repetition, juxtaposition, and narrative tension.

Mikhailov is widely regarded as a chronicler of his Ukrainian homeland. His photographs focus on everyday life: people on the street, at the beach, at dances, and in other ordinary situations where private existence and political reality intersect. Through these images, he examines the vulnerability of human life, the history and collapse of the Soviet Union, and the social consequences that followed.

The publication shows the book as a central form in Mikhailov’s work: not merely as a container for photographs, but as a medium in which images are arranged, interrupted, and reinterpreted through sequence and montage.