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After the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukranians had to replace their Soviet passports within a year. In 1994-5, in Luhansk, social services employed photographers to photos in the homes of those who were elderly or ill. For photographer Alexander Chekmenev, witnessing how people were living out their final years made a strong impression on him. This powerful collection exhibits some of his most unique and touching shots. Born in Eastern Ukraine, Chekmenev's offers an intimate and unique insider view of what was for some a painful transition.

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Born in Luhansk, Eastern Ukraine, Alexander Chekmenev’s early work focused on people affected by the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1997, he moved to Kiev, where he currently works as photojournalist. His work has been published in New York Times Lens Blog, Time Magazine and Time Light Box, New Yorker Photo Booth, MSNBC, Quartz, The Guardian, Vice Magazine, Liberation. In December 2022, at the Forbes Ukraine charity auction in Kyiv, his portrait of President Volodymyr Zelensky, taken for the cover of TIME magazine, was sold for $150, 000. The money went to charity to purchase generators for 100 children's institutions that had suffered during the war.

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