Summary
Anastasia Chernyavsky is a Russian-born photographer, who currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area, California.[1]
Life and work edit
Chernyavsky was born in Kazan, Russia. Her first photographic equipment was a Zenit E camera her father gave her as a gift when she was 15 years old.[1]
She is a freelance photographer for agencies, magazines or private clients, having worked as a professional photographer for civil events.[2]
She became famous in 2013 when her series of self-portraits, featuring her and her children naked, went viral in social media and the blogosphere, and were subsequently censored by Facebook,[3][4][5] with some commentators from the mainstream press comparing her compositions to neoclassical paintings, such as the "Madonna del Parto" of Piero della Francesca.[6]
Chernyavsky currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area, with her husband and their three children. She often uses for her work the pen name Styush.[7]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b Anastasia Chernyavsky's official website
- ^ E.g. Photo of couple in marriage announcement in 'The New York Times', 15 June 2008
- ^ "Foto Censurata, Vi Spiego Com'è Andata" ("Censored Photo, I'll Explain What Happened") in Buulb, 9 June 2013 (in Italian)
- ^ "La foto censurada por Facebook" Archived June 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine ("The photo censored by Facebook") by Macarena Bradley in Contrastes, 27 May 2013 (in Spanish)
- ^ "Η φωτογραφία τής γυμνής μητέρας πού διχάζει το διαδίκτυο" ("Nude Mother's Photo splits Internet Opinion") in Proto Thema, 13 June 2013 (in Greek)
- ^ "Madonna Post-Parto, 2013: Anastasia Chernyavsky, l’icona della mamma che lavora" ("Madonna Post Partum, 2013: Anastasia Chernyavsky, the icon of the working mom") by Pier Andrea Canei in La ventisettesima ora, 13 June 2013 (in Italian)
- ^ "Anastasia Chernyavsky" Archived 2013-03-24 at the Wayback Machine, from the Wird-photo website
External links edit
- "The Exploration of Identity through Self-Portraiture" by Raymond Roca, 18 July 2009