Aleksander Glyadyelov

2001 FiftyCrows PhotoFund Winner

About Aleksander

Born July 30th, 1956 Alexander Glyadyelov is an independent photojournalist who graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1980 and began his career as a professional photographer in 1989. Glyadyelov has collaborated with both Ukrainian and foreign mass media such as UNICEF and Medicines Sans Frontiers.

Throughout the 1990s  Glyadyelov has worked many places including Georgia, Russia’s far east, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjik Republic, Uzbekistan, Turkmenia, Azerbajdjan, Chechnya, Lithuania and the Ukraine. In 1992 he was wounded while covering the battle action in the Transdnister region of Moldova.        

Glyadyelov has participated in and received many awards from the Ukrpressphoto Contest including the Grand Prix in 1997. In 1998 he won the HASSELBALD award at the European Photography contest in Vevey, Switzerland.

He is a participant in the international exhibition “Ten Years After,” a project that explores the changes in the post-communist world. “Ten Years After” began in Prague in 1999 and is curated by the director of World Press Photo.

Glyadyelov works in many different fields of photojournalism, but his personal interest lie in the areas of social and military photography as well as human rights, and in  particular the rights of children. Currently he is simultaneously working on an expansive reportage of the HIV epidemic in the Ukraine and the project “Spare”, a research of abandoned and underprivileged adolescents and children attempting to survive in a post-communist society.

He labels his work “humanitarian photojournalism”.