Passport / Alexander Chekmenev.

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Chekmenev, Alexander [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Stockport, England : Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm

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    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.00The pictures were difficult for Chekmenev to take. Some people were just breaking down and begging to be left alone. They asked why they were being made to suffer, claiming that there was not much time left for them and that soon they would be dead. Witnessing how people were living out their final years made a very strong impression on him. He remembers photographing a blind woman, who, when he asked her to look into the camera, said that she couldn?t see. He wondered why was she being made to have a passport? Particularly as it was also clear that she didn?t have too much time left.
    ISBN
    • 1911306065
    • 9781911306061
    OCLC
    962016362
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