Keep Distance

Hardcover
224 pages
369 photographs
14 text pages in French and English
Size: W 24 × H 18 cm
Edition of 1,500 copies

Designed by Studio Mathieu Meyer
Text by Jimmy Poulot-Cazajous (French / English)

In Keep Distance, Boris Mikhaïlov takes us on a wild, dizzying ride from which we emerge slightly breathless and unsteady. Acting as a kind of visual logbook, the series is composed primarily of recent images (2020–2024), combined with some older photographs.

The book has the appearance of a mental tracking shot, where fragmentary or spontaneously framed images unsettle our gaze to such an extent that we begin to question what we are seeing. Street scenes, everyday objects, and screenshots are combined with more intimate portraits of his wife and collaborator Vita, his children, and his inner life.

The framing is always slightly unstable, on the verge of leaving something outside the image, never neutral.