Boris Mikhailov's distinctiveness as a "book maker" is that he thinks of and develops photography in sequences, in spaces and cuts, in the forms of its montage. Viewed as a whole the books and book drafts, which often only exist as one original copy, create a retrospective of a very unique and intimate kind. The artist's books "Krymskaja Fotomanija" ("Crimean Photomania") and "Mountains", each with 128 pages, are shown here in facsimile, interrupted by 80 pages of illustrated text.

Boris Mikhailov is seen as a chronicler of the history of his Ukrainian homeland: the everyday life of the so-called "little people" on the street, on the beach, at dances - anywhere that the politic becomes visible in the private. Using this material Mikhailov develops comprehensive questionings on the conditions of human existence, as well as on the history and decline of the USSR and its consequences.