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In 1997 he was invited to a Kiyv-based daily newspaper as a photojournalist and moved to Kyiv. In 1998 the newspaper ceased operation, Chekmenev became a freelancer and has been working as an independent photojournalist ever since. Today he works as a photojournalist
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was based on his work of 1994/95 and was published in the UK in 2017.
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Insight. Ukrainian black and white photography in the XXI century.
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