About Alexey "Professor" Lebedinsky
Alexey “Professor” Lebedinsky is a famous Russian singer, songwriter, adman and photographer. He started his creative productions at the age of 22, and continued to fine tune his professional interests in music, creativity, advertising and ad-consulting. For more than 25 years, companies including Porsche, Bang & Olufsen, Lukoil, Sony, Mercedes-Benz, Yamaha, Ariston, Philips, Olympus, large banks and manufacturers have been Alexey`s clients. From 2010 to 2012, Alexey was the Ad & PR Counselor for a Public JSC “Rosneft” (Russian Oil Company).
As a photographer Alexey Lebedinsky participated in numerous international and Russian exhibitions. His personal exhibitions were sponsored by Nikon, Epson, Canon and Pentax. In 2001 his first exhibition in St. Petersburg was sponsored by Pentax. Some of his major photo events were: in 2002, he was featured in an exposition in the Oval room of the newspaper “Izvestiya”. In 2007, Canon introduced 84 photographs by Lebedinsky at the International photo exhibition “Photoforum” within the “World Photography Stars”. In 2009, Kodak ProLab opened the “Indo-China” exhibition, and in 2012, “Rushydro” & Nikon introduced Alexey`s interior design works “Wallgraphs”. In 2013-2018 Alexey participated in numerous solo and mixed photo expositions. For many years he has been promoting new products for Olympus, Nikon, Sony, Canon.
Alexey’s photos feature famous people, such as Bruce Willis, Dennis Hopper, Jeremy Irons, Cesaria Evora, Phil Collins (former "Genesis"), Robert Plant (former "Led Zeppelin"), Jon Anderson (former "Yes"), Chris De Burgh, Kenny Garrett, Donald Fagen (Steely Dan), Avishai Cohen, Marcus Miller, Martyn Jacques (The Tiger Lillies), Gwen Stefani and others. His works portrayed a lot of Russian movie, music and sport stars: Leonid Agutin, Angelika Varum, Vladimir Kuzmin, Konstantin Khabensky, Mikhail Boyarsky, Grigory Leps, Andrey Makarevich, Igor Butman, Sergey Ignashevich etc.
Since 2014, the photographer and musician has supported Ukraine and opposed the Putin regime, so he was forced to leave Russia and move to the United States. In 2017 and 2018 he held exhibitions and concerts in Kyiv and Odessa.
In 2023, Alexey wrote the popular song “Yes to Israel” (Израилю - да!!!) in support of the Israelis in their fight against terrorism.
Charity exhibitions in support of Ukraine and Israel are planned in the USA and Europe.
His landscapes and streetlife photography take you all over the world: Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Cambodia, Israel, Greece, France, Vietnam, Germany, USA, Singapore, Holland, Great Britain, Tunisia, Turkey, Austria, Switzerland, Thailand, Belgium, Croatia, Bulgary, Monaco etc.
His works are decorating the interiors of famous collectors, politicians, actors, businessmen and all those who enjoy the art of photo.
In 2005 Alexey published a photographic book "Photoalbum #1", which was released with a circulation of 3000 copies and sold out in bookstores just in one year:
personal exhibition, Moscow, 2014
with Dennis Hopper - actor, director, photographer , 2007
with Cesaria Evora, 2007