Means of Influence
A group exhibition by the Mykolaiv photographic collective MYPH, founded by Serhii Melnychenko. Its thematic sections explore how individual identity takes shape within a creative group and a post-industrial city.
About the project
Means of Influence presents the photographic collective MYPH, whose participants came together in Mykolaiv under the guidance of Serhii Melnychenko. Different ages and backgrounds coexist within a common approach, producing a broad range of subjects, tools and genres.
Organised into thematic sections, the exhibition considers the collective as a space in which each participant shapes others while developing an individual practice. The emphasis shifts from the city’s objects and surroundings towards the social relationships through which a person becomes visible.
The project asks what it means to be oneself within a creative community and within the pressures of a post-industrial city. Photography becomes a means of negotiating that tension: a way to register one’s presence while recognising the influences that make it possible.