Abstract
Since the 1960s, the Kharkiv School of Photography has evolved as a result of photography’s exclusion from official culture and the absence of photographic institutions in both pre-Independent and Independent Ukraine. Therefore, the immediate circle of colleagues served as the primary reference group for artists. As a result, the Kharkiv photographers developed a habit of working together, inadvertently obscuring the concept of authorship. The article examines the working methods of the father-and-son duo of Viktor (1947–2021) and Sergiy Kochetov (born 1972). They both worked as photojournalists and aimed to depart from the cliched imagery of the official press. Through the intensive hand colouring of their black and white pictures, the photographers focused on the unstaged (post)Soviet reality. Stages and focuses of collaboration are reviewed, showing the mechanisms they transgress the conventional notion of authorship.
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