Alexander Chekmenev

Alexander Chekmenev (1969, Luhansk, Ukraine) is one of the important representatives of contemporary Ukrainian photography. Started his professional path in 1988 in the local photo atelier in Luhansk. In 1997 moved to Kyiv, where resides today. A large part of his body of work is a unique archive of Ukraine’s life (especially its Eastern regions) from the 1990s, in all the roughness of the social and political situation of the decade