ALEXANDER CHEKMENEV: PASSPORT Available as:Unsigned the Cumbrian countryside became largely

the Cumbrian countryside became largely a ‘no-go’ area

a Ukrainian student on a temporary work placement in Birmingham

would fly from their balcony over to the leafy branches of the chestnut across the street

Her work has been published widely in

ALEXANDER CHEKMENEV: PASSPORT Available as:Unsigned the Cumbrian countryside became largelyLAST 3 COPIES Shortlisted for the Arles Author Book Award 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,