Alexey Yurenev – Editions of 10
Photographs by Alexey Yurenev. Five editions of 10.
Alexey Yurenev spent two years photographing Brighton Beach — South Brooklyn’s enclave of post-Soviet émigrés, often called Little Odessa. Then he went to the real one.
What followed was two more years in Odessa, Ukraine, walking thirty kilometers a day with a medium-format camera. The pictures that came back are not of the war, and not of the city as a subject. They are of what happens at the edges of a place: goats grazing on an abandoned beach pergola, a bronze dolphin lying on blue cobblestone, a bride and groom kissing on a rock with a capsized tanker behind them, a child on a quad bike in front of a decommissioned submarine.
Five of those photographs are now printed on RANDOM/RANDOM garments. Each in an edition of 10.
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Welcome to the Exit is on view at RANDOM/SHOP, 228 Mott St. NYC,
through December 20.
In the artist’s own words:
Odessa, Ukraine—the “big” Odessa—was my eventual destination after two years photographing Brighton Beach, South Brooklyn’s enclave of post-Soviet émigrés often called Little Odessa.
I felt a connection the moment I arrived. A place I had never been, yet somehow already knew. It became a photographic love affair — what I saw outside was a mirror of my own inner landscape. Over two years I walked 30 kilometers a day, compulsively photographing, nostalgic for images I had never seen before, uncovering a reality that is truly stranger than fiction. What began as a search for a place became a way of recognizing it within myself.
Alexey Yurenev
(b. 1986, Moscow. Lives and works in New York.)
Yurenev is an artist and visual researcher. He teaches at Columbia University and the International Center of Photography, and is the author of Seeing Against Seeing (Nooscope, 2025). His work has been exhibited at FOAM, Amsterdam; Rencontres d’Arles; and MOMus, Thessaloniki, and is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library and FOAM.
THE COLLECTION.
All Editions of 10 and printed direct-to-garment from original film.
UNTITLED #40, printed on WHITE #1
100% Suvin cotton from Tamil Nadu, India. Knit in Wakayama, assembled in Niigata, Japan.
UNTITLED #41, printed on WHITE #4
100% organic Supima cotton from California. Knit in Wakayama, assembled in Niigata, Japan.
UNTITLED #42, printed on KHAKI #4
100% organic cotton from California. Knit in Wakayama, assembled in Niigata, Japan.
UNTITLED #43, printed on BLACK #4
100% organic Supima cotton from California. Knit in Wakayama, assembled in Niigata, Japan.
UNTITLED #44, printed on BLACK #1
100% Suvin cotton from Tamil Nadu, India. Knit in Wakayama, assembled in Niigata, Japan.
