1. Mstyslav Chernov has been a member of "Ukrainian PEN" since July 2022.
15 Facts About Mstyslav Chernov
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Mstyslav Chernov started his career in photography in 2005, working for a local Kharkiv news agency MediaPort.
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Mstyslav Chernov gained prominence in 2008 when he received the 1st prize at a local photography exhibition "Kharkiv through the eyes of its inhabitants".
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In 2009, Mstyslav Chernov won another first place award in local photo expo "Almost disappearing Kharkiv", covering crumbling examples of the city's older architecture.
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In 2013, Mstyslav Chernov became the President of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers.
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In 2013, Mstyslav Chernov participated in Unframe, an international documentary photography project.
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In late 2013 in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, Mstyslav Chernov photographed the mass protests of Euromaidan as a MediaPort and Unframe correspondent.
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Russian military intervention to Donbas had created another conflict zone in Ukraine, and Mstyslav Chernov covered War in Donbas in 2014, becoming one of very few journalists who reported the conflict from both sides.
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Mstyslav Chernov's reporting played an essential role in the AP's coverage of the event.
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In subsequent years as an AP journalist and war correspondent, Mstyslav Chernov covered the war in Syria and the Battle of Mosul in Iraq as well as the 2015 European migrant crisis in Greece, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, and Germany.
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Mstyslav Chernov's reports were published worldwide, including being picked up by The Independent, The Seattle Times, Military Times, Navy Times, and Washington Examiner.
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Mstyslav Chernov's photographs were published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Le Monde, Deutsche Welle, Die Zeit, and his videos were aired on BBC, Euronews, CNN, Fox News, Sky News, Al Jazeera.
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Mstyslav Chernov re-teamed with Associated Press and Frontline for 2000 Meters to Andriivka focusing on a Ukrainian counteroffensive as they recapture Russian-occupied Andriivka.
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In January 2020, Mstyslav Chernov presented his psychological novel Dreamtime, a 500-page fiction conceived and written over an 8-year period.
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On September 26,2023, Mstislav Mstyslav Chernov stated that the publishing house "Samit-knyga" had not paid him a fee two years after the publication of the novel and refused to report on the sale of the book.