 |
Alexander Chekmenev was born 1969 in Luhansk, the city located in Eastern Ukraine.
In 1988 he started his career as a photographer in a small photo studio in his home town. On the free of work time he photographed people on the streets and homes, who were effected the most by economical crisis after Soviet Union collapse.
1990-92 – he studied at the correspondence faculty of photojournalism at MSU.
1997 – he moved to Kiev, where he works as photojournalist.
2011 – Alexander published a book "Donbass", a visual narrative of 20 years photographic exploration of the Eastern Ukraine. His work has been published in New York Times Lens blog, Time Magazine, Time LightBox, The New Yorker Photo Booth, MSNBC, Quartz, The Guardian, Vice Magazine.
Photos of Alexander give an intimate and unique insider view on transition of coal mining region in 90-s in Eastern Ukraine. He still continues to document the transformation of his home region Donbass, which is caught up in war now.
Since 2011 – member of the Noga Creative Union.
Award & Honors:
2013 – Grand Prix Photographer of the Year, Ukraine.
2000 – winner of the European competition of documentary photography for the series "Ukrainian passport", Vevey, Switzerland.
1994 – 1st prize in the competition Ukrpressphoto in the category New Names, Kiev, Ukraine.
Solo exhibitions:
2017 – Series "Passport", Folia Gallery, Paris, France.
2016 – Series "Donbass" and "Passport", Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA.
2014 – Series "Mad World", Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany.
2012-13 – Series "Donbass", Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Duesseldorf; Märkisches Museum der Stadt, Witten, Germany.
2012 – Street people, Art Center – Camera Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2010 – Series "Donbass", Museum of Modern Art, Perm, Russia.
2008 – Series "Street portraits – color photography", Ya Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2007 – Series "Black-and-white photography", Ya Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2007 – Series "Winners", Irene Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2001 – Series "Ukrainian passport", "Lilies", "Blind", "Easter", "Portraits", "Shakhtery", photo gallery in Olsztyn, Poland.
2001 – Series "Ukrainian passport", Zurich, Switzerland.
2001 – Series "Ukrainian passport", "Lilies", "Blind", "Easter", "Portraits", "Shakhtery", Zameck Gallery, Poznan; Zielona Góra Gallery, Poland.
2000 – Series "Ukrainian passport" and "Lilies", photo gallery in Poprad, Slovakia.
2000 – 1st personal exhibition, organized by the magazine Photography and the newspaper Vedminosti Vzhesinsky, Vzvesnia, Poland.
Group exhibitions:
2020 – NoGa Creative Union, Thin Line Photo Festival, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
2017 – Series "Passport", PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine.
2014 – Series "Warriors", LEGACY: Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, & The Caucasus, Newcastle, UK.
2014 – "Ukraine in crisis" series from Maidan protests, Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, UK.
2011-13 – Invisible Country, Project Liberty.SU, White Cube Gallery, Omsk; Tomsk Regional Museum of Local History, Tomsk; Municipal Art Gallery, Kostroma, Russia.
2010 – Without revolution, 3rd Festival of photo-document, Poznan-Warsaw, Poland.
2008 – 4x4. Modern Ukrainian Photography, House of Photography, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Bibliography:
2017 – Passport, Dewi Lewis Publishing, ISBN 978-1-911306-06-1, Stockport, United Kingdom.
2010 – Donbass, Kerer Verlag, deu./eng./rus., ISBN 978-3-86828-185-9, Heidelberg, Germany.
2008 – Chorno-bila photographiya, ArtBooks Publishing House, ukr./eng., ISBN 978-966-96916-4-4, Kiev, Ukraine.
|
|
