Photographer Vyacheslav Kostyukov: "pioneer of Soviet eroticism"

Ternopil region, 2011. The episode of the program "Candid Dialogues" is dedicated to an interview with the photographer Vyacheslav Kostyukov.

In the video: an interview with the photographer, talks about the experience of "nude" photo shoots, comments from connoisseurs of Vyacheslav Kostyukov's works; a story about childhood, exhibitions, family, creativity, sources of inspiration.

Comments: photo model, photographer Olesya Nepyyvoda; Chairman of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine Yevhen Bezkorovany; Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine Bohdan Tkachyk; Chairman of the Board of the Ternopil Regional Organization of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine Vasyl Balyukh; Journalist Iryna Chuyko; Literary critic Volodymyr Frolenkov.

Host — Larisa Mykhalska.

Reference: Vyacheslav Kostyukov is a Ukrainian photographer, a member of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine and the International Union of Writers and Journalists. Laureate of international, all-Union and all-Ukrainian exhibitions, known as a pioneer of erotic photography in the USSR. He gained authority in the "nude" genre starting in the 1970s, was the first in Ternopil to organize an exhibition of erotic photographs, and had personal exhibitions in Ukraine and Great Britain.