Alexander Stepanenko
Россия, Мурманская область, Murmansk
Alexander Stepanenko
I am photojournalist, the member of Photoartists’ Union of Russia.
1985 – 1991 – I studied in Moscow University, faculty of journalism.
1991–2001 – I worked as a photojournalist in the regional newspaper “Polyarnaya Pravda” (Murmansk).
2002-2009 – senior lecturer in the Faculty of Journalism of the Murmansk Humanitarian Institute.
My pictures are published in many Murmansk editions and they are included in some photoalbums such as “The Modern Soviet Photography” (1991, USA) and “Russian Moments” (1991, France), in magazines “Krestianka”, “Ogoniok”, Severnye Prostory”, “The Soviet Photo”, in Swedish magazine “Saami people”, sites Reuters, AP (08. 2000) and in many Soviet and Russian newspapers.
• the culture prize in the category “Humour Photo” in International Photofestival in Belgium (2000)
• the 2-d premium in the category “ Novosti” in the Interphoto – Moscow, 2001 – photoproject « The tragedy of the “Kursk”.
Author photoprojects:
1. ‘‘The Chernobyl village” (1980–2000).
2. "Everyday Archangel village" (1986–2004).
3. "Temptation, or the lines of the female body" (1999–2000).
4. “Saami of Russia” (1991–2013).
Author of photoalbum "The Reindeer people" (Murmansk, 2000).
Author of documents book "The death by shooting of a family "
(Historical essays on the Kola saami) (Murmansk, 2002).
Author of DVD-fotoalbum "Saami of Russia" (Murmansk, 2010).
Author of DVD-fotoalbum "With love to the North!" (Murmansk, 2012).