
Oleksandr Chekmenyov
photographer
Oleksandr was born in Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. He started his career as a photographer in asmalllocal photo studio in his hometown: in his spare time, Oleksandrtook photos of people affected by the economic crisis afterthe collapse of the Soviet Union. His worksrepresent an insider’s look at thetransformation of the mining region in the 1990s. Chekmenyov’s photographic series have been published on the New YorkTimes’Lens blog, Time’sLightbox, the New Yorker’sPhoto Booth, MSNBC, Quartzand other publications