Anastasia Chernyavsky is a Russian-born photographer, who currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area, California.
Life and work
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.
She is a freelance photographer for agencies, magazines or private clients, having worked as a professional photographer for civil events.
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, with some commentators from the mainstream press comparing her compositions to neoclassical paintings, such as the "Madonna del Parto" of Piero della Francesca.
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.
See also
Nude photography
References
External links
"The Exploration of Identity through Self-Portraiture" by Raymond Roca, 18 July 2009
Living people
Artists from Kazan
Photographers from San Francisco
Russian emigrants to the United States
Russian photographers
Russian women photographers
Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women photographers 21st-century American photographers