Melancholy was once considered a disease. Today, the term "depression" is more commonly used, and "melancholy" is commonly used to describe a sad, despondent mood.

Feeling sad or depressed is as natural as feeling happy. Each of us periodically experiences this state for various reasons. According to Sergey, it offers many resources for productive creativity. All you need to do is befriend melancholy, allow it to be with you, and… observe. The skill of observing and seeing will do the rest.

Sergey Mikhalenko's photographs seem simple and elusively familiar. They are about contemplation, silence, tranquility, and perhaps the loneliness of man in a big world. And yet, they are about life. About the beauty of space, about different forms of existence, and always about the importance of living in the here and now.