Born 1956 in Legnica (Poland). Lives and works in Kyiv since 1974.
Graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute".
Since 1989 - he is an independent professional photojournalist who has worked in Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Lithuania and Poland, Czech Republic, France, the United States, Switzerland, Somalia, Kenya, Southern Sudan, Moldova, Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya.
Since 1996, the photographer took part in the documentary photo projects and projects dedicated to socially disadvantaged children and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS.
Since 1997 he co-works with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other organisations: HRW, THE GLOBAL FUND, UNAIDS, UNICEF.
Personal exhibitions
2008
Sky without Angels, YA Gallery art centre, Kyiv
From the Darkness, eithin the project of IOM Mission in Ukraine «Devirsity Initiative», Kyiv
2007
Phthisis in jail, National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2006
Mother Africa, Dim Mykoly Gallery, Kyiv
Lopukhov-Brustury, Camera Gallery, Kyiv
Somalia: forgotten humanitarian crisis, 59 and Film, University of Geneva, Locarno, Switzerland
2005
Open doors, exhibition halls of Transcarpathian Regional Museum, Uzhgorod
Not taking a look, A-House Gallery, Kyiv
2004
Yes Ukraine! Mystez Gallery, Kyiv
Human ad Jail, Palfyho Palace, Bratislava
Extra, Drugs and AIDS, Prisoners - Stara Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw Royal Castle
2003
DRUGS, AIDS and Life, Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius
Without the Mask, Dim Mykoly Gallery, Kyiv
Extra, Vilnius photo gallery, Vilnius
2002
Seeking for lost, Red Cross Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
2001
Without a homeland, an oval hall of the newspaper Izvestia, Moscow
Seeking for lost, Ukrainian House, Kyiv
Road, RA Gallery, Kyiv
AIDS, conference room UN, New York, USA
Without the mask, Museum of Fine Arts, Kemerovo, Russia
Extra, Poznan, Poland
Group Exhibitions
2006
Moving Walls: A Documentary Photography exhibition, traveling exhibition of seven photographers
2004
Yes!, Ukrainian Institute, New York, USA
Don't look away, UIMA, Chicago, USA
2003
Chernobyl, festival DONUMENTA4, Regensburg, Germany
Youth enduring: a will to survive, The Fifty Crows Gallery, San Francisco, USA
INVASIO, Central Houdse of Artist, Kyiv
MSF, Gallerian, Stockholm
Pandemik: facing AIDS, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Moving walls 2002, OSI, New York, USA
2001
Mother Jones Grant 2001 Winner's exhibition, International Documentary Photography Found Friends of Photography house, San Francisco, USA
Awards
2002
Moving Walls 2002, Open Society Institute (OSI), New York, USA
2001
Mother Jones 2001 - Medal of Excellence, International Documentary Photography Found, San Francisco, USA
1998
Prix Hasselblad, European Photography Images'98, Vevey, Switzerland
1997
Grand Prix Ukrpresfoto-97, Kyiv
