Colourography. 2013 For the Colourography series, Taras Perevarukha used photographs taken while travelling in Norway, Iceland, Spain, the USA, Morocco, Italy, and Ukraine. Travelling is one of the most important activities of humankind, throughout history it has been contributing to the development, exchange of knowledge and goods, conquest and diplomacy. In the 20th century, travelling became an entertainment available to millions of citizens of bourgeois countries. Now, when we think of a photograph brought back from a trip, we imagine depictions of famous tourist gems, vivid portraits against the backdrop of a landscape that materialize the lived experience and serve as documentary evidence of impressions. Usually, travel photos objectify the new environment without trying to get into the essence. Susan Sontag called it the illusion of appropriating the past through photography. In the Colourography series, layers of realistic images form textured colour spots, thus creating a single sensual impression of the place, leaving only the essence of the image of things. Geography as a science of spatial natural and socio-economic diversity is closely related to visualization and the creation of a symbolic coordinate system. Many of the colours used on geographic maps relate to an object or feature of the area. For example, blue is almost always chosen for water. Exploring the history of colours, Michel Pastoureau defines colour primarily as a social phenomenon and a cultural structure that permeates the entire complex of life phenomena. However, it is difficult to guess the geographic area from each image in the series. Empirically, we expect to see warmer, brighter colours in images taken in Spain, while images from Iceland are expected to be pure and cold. Here the colour loses the generally accepted symbolic system. The author creates a subjective point of observation that is both experimental and true in its own sense.