Golovchenko depicts the lives of those who run roadside stalls in Ukraine – where they sell fruit according to season. The merchants, many of them coming from Azerbaijan and Georgia, mix with locals and live close to their makeshift emporiums in tents and trailers. Golovchenko’s images talk about his compassion for these uprooted people, about the bitterness in their lives.
"'Kachalka' is a famous outdoor gym in Ukraine. Founded by a private initiative 35 years ago, it today offers free training facilities across 10,000 square meters of floor area for anyone who wants to get in shape. Working out on these mostly homemade, archaic-looking machines is an equalizing experience, with people from all social strata rubbing shoulders here. The photographs taken by Kirill Golovchenko not only document the universal bodybuilding rituals that can be observed in emblematic form at Kachalka. The Ukrainian bodybuilders both young and old in his pictures also serve as a powerful and ironic visual metaphor for the ambitious spirit of awakening in this country." -- From publisher's description
Situated "7 km" away from Odessa, Kirill Golovchenko has photographed one of the largest marketplaces in the world. The market, the oldest part of which was set up immediately after the Second World War, and thus during a long-gone Soviet era, is still known today as the "Field of Wonders."