Born in 1981 in Moscow, Russia, Alexander Chernavskiy is a Russian artist, his career emerged in the wake of the influence of documentary traditions and contemporary art as the fields of his main interest. Alexander Chernavskiy is a member of the Union of Russian Photo Artists since 2009. He was a participant of different festivals and exhibitions in Russia, Georgia, Belarus, Latvia, Ukraine, USA, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Belgium, Slovenia, UK, Lithuania, Turkey, Malta, Finland, Italy.
He is a media artist, who works with photography, video, text, and sound art, he creates self-published photobooks and zines since 2015.
In 2015-2019 he produced 6 self-published photo books. His text and artworks were published by Privatephotoreview, F-Stop Magazine, Lenscratch, Sonder review, Barzakh Magazine, Cold Mountain Review, Stoneboat, Raven Chronicles, Dodho, The Ocotillo Review, MAINTENANT, Archive, Kultur Magazine in recent years.