A series of photos Sergey Melnitchenko - Schwarzenegger is My Idol

Year: 2012

Place: Mykolaiv

'Schwarzenegger is my idol' is a story of the 1980s-1990s generation raised on Hollywood blockbusters. The series was taken in 2012 by Sergey Melnitchenko, a photographer from Mykolaiv, a city in the South of Ukraine. It features a group of young men, deeply passionate about sports, who are turning their teenage craze into a compass through the suffocating atmosphere of the Post-Soviet provincial town.Sergii Melnychenko is an artist. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art have featured Sergii Melnychenko's work in the past. Sergii Melnychenko has been featured in articles for ArtDependence Magazine and South China Morning Post. The most recent article is Ukrainian Artists at PHOTO La Virtual Collect + Connect written for ArtDependence Magazine in June 2020.