Yelena Yemchuk: Gidropark

Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-based photographer and painter Yelena Yemchuk is most commonly known for her fashion and portrait photographs, but her personal work, which she usually shoots on a 35- mm camera while traveling around the globe, has rarely been seen. The photographs in this book were taken over three summers between 2005 and 2008 at Gidropark, an old amusement park (Yemchuk has called it “an Eastern European version of Coney Island”) in Kiev.