Although this artist has only recently emerged on the scene, he has already firmly staked out a unique niche in St. Petersburg's high-end photography.

At the start of his career, Chernogrivov was primarily preoccupied with nude models but not as a subject-matter in itself; more likely, he sought an initial impulse for expressive ideas and complex representational associations. Identified with the progress of a thought or emotion, body movements acquire an increasingly unrestrained, mesmerizing rendering in his photographs, eventually approaching an abstraction as closely as the nature of photography would allow it.

Indulging in sophisticated technical experimentation, Chernogrivov effectively departs from conventional photography, producing works where the "imprint" of a human body is perceived as a distant memory of progress in space, as a visual echo, an incarnation of his vision not of physical, but of psychic energy. Chernogrivov's enormous sheets, nervy and ornate, emanate rare power bordering on that of an artifact. They fit in perfectly with the modern photographic mainstream.