Biography
Photo by: Valentyn Kuzan
Les Kasyanov is a staff press photographer at Lviv Regional Council documenting political life, sports events, and everyday routine of Lviv.
Les is also available for freelance assignments as a photojournalist, currently working on assignments for local and national outlets. He also covers matches of Ukrainian Rugby Federation and Ukrainian Premier League.
Over the past decade Les has been taking portraits of the eyewitnesses of the Holocaust all over Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Moldova on assignment for Yahad–In Unum (Paris). In 2019–2021 he made documentaries about the Jewish settlements in Southern Ukraine and the Holocaust by bullets in Kherson.
Les's work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine, CNN, BBC, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Kyiv Independent, Al Jazeera, etc.
Les studied German literature at Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv and photography at Viktor Marushchenko School of Photography.
Les is a member of the International Federation of Journalists and the Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine. He speaks English, German and French besides his native Ukrainian.
Contacts
E-mail: studio@leskasyanov.com
Books
2021
A cover and illustrations for the book So they remember by Maksim Goldenshteyn
2018
The Holocaust by bullets on the occupied Soviet territory, European teachers seminar, 11th edition, photos
2015
Killing Sites — Research and Remembrance, photos for a book by International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
The Holocaust by Bullets. A Study Guide for Educators, photos for a book by Yahad–In Unum
2014
Yahad–In Unum. Broad Daylight, photos for the book
Exhibitions
2023
La Shoah par Balles (Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium)
2022
2020
Holocaust Remembrance Day (German Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine)
Holocaust by Bullets (Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education, Suffern, New York, USA, Burton Barr Library and Arizona State University Tempe Campus, Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
2019
Mémoire Rom (Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes, Perpignan, France, MolenRom asbl, Brussels, Belgium)
Holocaust by Bullets (Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, USA)
Women at the Frontline of Mass Violence Worldwide (Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, USA)
2018
Holocaust by Bullets (Boulder JCC, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
2017
Holocaust by Bullets (Milwaukee Jewish Museum, USA)
2016
A History of a Street (Ushakova Str, Kherson, Ukraine)
Diversity for Peace (EGO, Kherson, Ukraine)
Holocaust by Bullets (Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania, University of Valencia, Spain, Centro Sefarad-Israel, Madrid, Spain, United Nations Lobby, New York, USA)
2015
Holocaust by Bullets (Museo del Holocausto, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Dallas Holocaust Museum, USA, Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, USA, El Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center, USA, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, USA, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France)
2014
Terra Futura: Inner Ukraine (Fabryka mall, Kherson, Ukraine)
Holocaust by Bullets (Beth Tzedec Synagogue, Calgary, Canada, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada)
2009
[new]kraine (Ausstellungsraum, Hamburg, Germany)
2008
Ukraine.Now! (Uzhhorod Castle, Ukraine)
2007
Ukraine.Now! (Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany)