Portfolio
Alexander Chekmenev
Ukrainian, 1969, Luhansk, Ukraine.
One of the important representatives of contemporary Ukrainian photography. Got interested in it during his school years, visited a photostudio. Started his professional path in 1988 in the local photatelier in Luhansk. After completing military service was hired as a photographer in the complex of art and industrial services. In 1997 moved to Kyiv, where resides today. A large part of his body of work is a unique archive of Ukrainie’s life (especially its Eastern regions) from the 1990s, in all the roughness of social and political situation of the decade.