Alexander Chekmenev started taking photographs for Passport in 1994, a series where he captured the elderly who were living out their final days in inhumane conditions. He captured extreme poverty and despair, the state in which Ukraine found itself after the collapse of the Soviet Union and from which it has not quite yet recovered yet. Twenty years after the series was created, it was published as a book by the British publishing house Dewi Lewis Publishing. Bird in Flight talked to Alexander about his most important series to date, and asked photographers Donald Weber and Alexander Lyapin about their view on Passport.
