Oleksandr Chekmenyov

Oleksandr Volodymorovych Chekmenov ( Alexander Chekmenev) (, , born April 1, 1969) is a Ukrainian documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Kiev.
Career.
Chekmenov made his first photo while in school, attended a photoclub and later got a professional certificate from a licensed photo studio in Luhansk in 1988.
 He worked for a studio in Luhansk and did small time jobs taking pictures of weddings, birthdays and other occasions. He also occasionally volunteered as a forensic photographer for an ambulance brigade in the city.
In 1997 he was invited to a Kiyv-based daily newspaper as a photojournalist and moved to Kiev. In 1998 the newspaper ceased operation, Alexander became a freelancer and has been working as an independent photojournalist ever since. Today works as a photojournalist in the weekly magazine Focus (Ukrainian magazine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(Ukrainian_magazine)
Photo books.
His first book was called simply «Black and white photographs» and was published in 2008 in Kiev as a part of series on Ukrainian photography. In 2011 Alexander made a private print of his book «Donbass» in Germany. His next book «Passport» was based on his work of 1994-1995 and was published in the UK in 2017.
As a single author
In collaboration
Exhibitions.
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