Oleksandr Glyadyelov is a Ukrainian documentary photographer and photojournalist. He uses an analogue camera on black-and-white film and prints his photos in his home lab in Kyiv.

His work addresses social issues such as military conflicts, humanitarian crises, child homelessness, prisons, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis C, and drug addiction. He has covered conflicts in Moldova, Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya, Kyrgyzstan, Somalia, South Sudan, and Ukraine. Since 1997, he has cooperated with international organizations like Doctors Without Borders, HRW, the Global Fund, UNAIDS, and UNICEF.

His awards include the Ukrpressphoto-97 Grand Prix for Abandoned Children, the Hasselblad Prize at Images’98, the Mother Jones 2001 Medal of Excellence, and the Shevchenko Prize 2020 for Carousel.