I'm photographing concerts and festivals, people and nature, urban landscapes; reporting events; projects; engaged in cultural media (https://karpovych.com/).
Widely open to different kind of music from folk, world music, jazz, electronic music to avant-garde, modern classic and so on.
Living with camera from 2009 and really love to take pictures of music life, nature, city landscapes and people in action.
I'm keen on discovering my native country from the inside. I have been traveling and capturing things for expeditionary project called Ukrainer – a project that is looking for interesting and obscured places in Ukraine and telling about active people in different fields. (more in https://ukrainer.net/en/)

One of my main activities now its creating Ukrainian online-platform about improvisational music Meloport (https://meloport.com/), where I'm photographing and looking for new topics for music process displaying.

I used to play Go (Baduk, Weichi) – intellectual game from the East – for a long time and I still have 1 dan, If someone is interested in Eastern culture, I could tell more.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Part of a journey - its meeting with new people and new stories.

Interests

music journey, photography, city walking

• culture
• photography
• music festivals
• festivals
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• art
• nature
• people
• urban landscapes
• meloport

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The National, Sampha, Son Lux, Forest Swords, DakhaBrakha, Tigran Hamasyan, Brad Mehldau, Maria Schneider, Ambrose Akinmusire and many others in different genres.

Films from directors - Denis Villeneuve, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders

Books: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Jorge Luis Borges, Andrey Bitov, Zbigniew Herbert, Julio Cortázar, Thornton Wilder, Kurt Vonnegut, Ukrainian avant-garde 20-30ths 20th century.

Teach, Learn, Share

I could sharing with interesting cultural topics from my experience about Ukraine and in general.

I could take some photos with you in picturesque places or just at home and show some tricks with camera.

Also if you are interested in playing Go, I could teach you.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am gladly talk about photography, music, cultural life.
And, of course, we could capture our meetings.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland