• Location:
    Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • Photo Associations & Memberships:
    Ukrainian Photographic Alternative
About Igor Chekachkov

Landmarks of professional life:

Photo reporter and editor in Mediaport News Agency (Kharkiv, Ukraine) since March 2008. Contributor to such news agencies as RIA Novosti, Unian and ITAR TASS on a freelance basis since August 2008.
Editorial portrait photographer in "Forbes" magazine, as well as a number of periodical editions base in Ukraine, such as Focus", “Reporter”, since year 2010.
Freelance contributor to "National Geographic" since May 2013, "Le Monde" (France), Associated press since 2014, "The Guardian" (UK) since 2015, Wirtschafts Wochesince (Germany) and others.
Regular workshops, composition and visual language course in “Kharkiv Photoschool ICF” since 2013, documentary course since 2015.

Member of UPHA (Ukrainian Photographic Alternative) and UAPF (Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers) group since year 2013, National Society of Photo Artists of Ukraine since 2015.

Exhibitions:

08.2013 exhibition at the Baltic Biennale of Photography, Kalliningrad

01.2014 solo exhibition at the gallery Dziga, Lviv

06.2014 exhibition at Eleven Gallery, Rennes, France

07.2014 exhibition at Tea Factory Gallery, Odessa

10.2014 exhibition at La Quitreme Image, Paris

11.2014 exhibition at the Festival of Contemporary Art "Terra Futura", Kherson.

12.2014 solo exhibition at Come.In gallery, Kharkiv

02.2015 short movie for festival “Bring Us Your Woman” in USA

07.2015 solo exhibition at Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris

09.2015 exhibition at Ukrainian Cultural Center, Los Angeles

10. 2015 exhibition at Ukrainian Museum, New York

11.2015 exhibition at Come.In gallery, Kharkiv

01.2016 solo exhibition in Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv

03.2016 exhibition in French Institute of Alexandria, Egypt

04.2016 exhibition in Lavra gallery, Kiev

06.2016 exhibition in Municipal Gallery during night if museums, Kharkiv

08.2016 exhibition in Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv

04.2017 Selection for main exhibition in festival Odessa // Batumi

Selected publications:

10.2014 Opera magazine, Germany

11.2014 5.6 magazine, Ukraine

04.2015 P3, Portugal

06.2015 P3, Portugal

Specialization: visual reporting, street photography, art photography projects (without limits)