Authority control databases: Artists
Anastasia Chernyavsky is a Russian-born photographer, who currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area, California.[1]
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.[1]
She is a freelance photographer for agencies, magazines or private clients, having worked as a professional photographer for civil events.[2]
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,[3][4][5] with some commentators from the mainstream press comparing her compositions to neoclassical paintings, such as the "Madonna del Parto" of Piero della Francesca.[6]
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.[7]
