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FACES OF WAR - Alexander Chekmenev
(English) Published by Gallery Clara Maria Sels at KERBER, 2024 In Faces of War, Alexander Chekmenev focusses on the lives of the Ukrainian population and their individual fates as a result of the Russian war of aggression. With great sensitivity, Chekmenev portrays those who defy the war in their everyday lives, who work in makeshift soup kitchens, try to protect themselves from the ongoing attacks in underground railway shafts or actively help to feed their fellow human beings. texts by C. J. Chivers, Oleksandra Osadcha, Donald Weber ISBN:978-3-7356-1006-5 Hardcover 232 pages 81 colored and 28 b/w illustrations Design by Bärbel Maxisch, BÜRO211, Düsseldorf Available at the Gallery |
DONBASS - Alexander Chekmenev
(German, English, Russian) Published by KEHRER, 2011 The Donbass, a huge coal and industrial area in the east of Ukraine, is one of the major metropolitan areas in Eastern Europe. Since the 18th century, coal is mined here. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than half of the mines were closed. The photographer Alexander Chekmenev documented in this book in an impressive and touching way the lives of coal miners in the region. ISBN:978-3868281859 Available at the Gallery |
PASSPORT - Alexander Chekmenev
(English) Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2017 In 1994-1995, in Luhansk, a town in southeast Ukraine, social services began employing photographers to take passport photos in the homes of those who were elderly or ill, and could not themselves afford to pay a photographer. Alexander Chekmenev was one of the photographers commissioned to go door to door during this national campaign. And so he ended up in the homes of these people, along with the social workers whose more usual job was to provide free medicine and groceries. ISBN: 978-1-911306-06-1 |
