OLGA BOLTNEVA

For more info and order please contact me at olga@boltneva.com

Self-published handmade book 2018
Limited-edition of 50 signed and numbered copies.
180 x 135mm / Hardback with acrylic printing, swiss binding / 48 pages + 6 folded pages
Concept, edit and art-direction: developed in the 2018 Atlas lab photobook making workshop by Alex Bocchetto and Yumi Goto, in collaboration with AKINA and Reminders Photography Stronghold.
Photo/binding Olga Boltneva
Prepress Yulia Timashova
Printed Nemakulatura
Price 40 euro + shipping

review by Olga Bubich: https://www.photographer.ru/events/review/7675.htm

Awards & Fellowship
Felifa International Prize, short list, 2018
6th Singapore International Photography Festival: Open Call Photo Book Showcase, sort list 2018
17th DongGang International Photo Festival, project “One flesh”, DongGang Museum of Photography and exhibition venues, Seoul, South Korea, 2018
Perugia Social Photo Fest, Honorable Mention, 2018

What’s the meaning of marriage? This question we asked ourselves when for 8 years of marriage, we did not become parents, and the doctors diagnosed me with "Infertility of the 2nd degree". But it's not the end, it's time of the beginning.
The project "One flesh" is a story about Love. The diagnosis that doctors gave me was the starting point in the search for the meaning of marriage. Awareness of the true meaning of love. To start living in other as in oneself. To feel the New Testament verse “and the two will become one flesh” with your own skin. After all, the family is not a reproductive function. This is primarily the Two.
In a sense, this work can be called therapeutic, as it helped us survive the difficult moment of life - the struggle against infertility and the ultimate acceptance of defeat in it. Having lost what seemed to us the most important thing, the opportunity to become parents, we found the real most important thing - ourselves and the integrity of our marriage.