Speaking In Tongues



SIMPLY The BEST
1986-1999





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    M.Pavin. Self-Portrait


    Mikhail Pavin, born 1958.

A photographer obscure throughout the world. A somewhat designer. An oxygen reserve lieutenant. He sailed the seas, he knows. No known liasons besmirching his high title. Married, long-familied. His creative credo is: that what doesnt help, hampers. Despite the abundance of the homegrown virtues he is not a bad person, in principle, and in part he even is good in some sense, yet that does not preclude him from hiding a pack of Belomor smokes from friends, for the smokes had been bought accidentally for an excedingly low price. In the time free from leisure he likes all women of the world and loves coffee with cream. He hates money because it is never enough and war because it disturbs sleep. Mikhail Pavin has been the Young Communist League member since 1972.

SIMPLY The BEST is the series of the Mikhail Pavins shows presenting his best photographs printed by the time of an exhibition, mostly unexposed before, and the present catalogue is an enterprise virtually independent of the current exposition. Due to the authors insolvency there are no colour photographs in this catalogue, and live they are exhibited as a computer slide show. The authors texts are included in the present catalogue primarily as the elements of design.


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