When I Was a Virgin

Éditions Bessard, 2021. Edition of 200 copies.
Softcover, risograph printing, 36 pp., 44 b/w illustrations, 210 x 297 mm. Photographs by Sergey Melnitchenko. Design by Thibault Geffroy.

Winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017, Sergey Melnitchenko was born in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, in 1991. He is a member of the Ukrainian Photographic Alternative, a collective promoting contemporary photography in Ukraine. His work has been shown in various international solo and group exhibitions. He has lived and worked in China for a few years.