Arkadiy Kurta grew up in the small city of Sumy in Ukraine and lived in Germany for two years while he attended school. Prior to becoming a photographer, he attended the Banking Academy of Finance in Kiev for six years. Whilst studying at the academy he became interested in photography after he was presented with an inexpensive camera as a gift. The following year, at twenty-nine years old, he enrolled in the Kiev School of Photography and a year later he opened his first studio in his hometown. In 2017 he was inducted into The National Union of Photographic Artists of Ukraine. "Arkadiy Kurta does not treat the women he photographs as sexual objects. His images possess the subtleties required to expose the delicate 'shades of grey' that separate art from eroticism and sexuality which places them comfortably on the borderline between expression & desire." Two chromogenic prints on Fuji Crystal Archive paper 1) Empatico (2017) 2) My Little Pony (2017) Paper Size - 12" x 10" (30 x 25 cm) Image Size - 9½" x 8" (24 x 20 cm) Image Dates - 2017 Print Date - September 2020 Catalogue - AK031/66FU Condition - MINT Signed in the negatives Gallery stamps Certificate of Print Authenticity Ships in a large PVC tube