Yauhen Attsetski is a photographer and civic journalist from Minsk Belarus, now in exile in Ukraine. He is active mainly in the field of documentary photography, and is interested in the theme of different communities. He is currently  working on the book project “The Square of Change”, a poignant story about neighbours from one of Minsk’s sleeping quarters who became a community united by their struggles against the falsification of results during the presidential elections, and against the violence and tortures committed by the Belarusian regime. Yauhen is educated in Minsk and St. Petersburg and his documentary photo projects have been exhibited in Belarus, Poland and Lithuania. In 2020 he won the Prafota grand prix in the DOC (Documentary Photography) category, with a visual story on the Belarusian punk band Messed Up.

Short CV:

Education
2009 – Workshop «Visual documents» in Minsk
2016 – Workshop with Rob Hornstra «DIY Storytelling» in Minsk
2019 – Docdocdoc School (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

Work
2006 – present – freelancer photographer
2010-2016 – School of photography Studio67
2016 – present – School of photography fsh1
2013-2014 – photographer in «Sapiens» magazine

Group Exhibitions
2008 – Diptychs (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2009 – Diptychs (Minsk, Belarus)
2015 – Anatomy (Minsk, Belarus)
2019 – Helsinki Photo Festival
2021 – Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance (Kiev, Ukraine)
2021 – Riga Photomonth
2021 – Mfm in Lodz
2021 – Belarus Lebt! (Berlin, Germany)
2021 – Genius loci, genius lost (Minsk, Belarus)

Awards
2014 – 3rd place in BelPressPhoto, category «Portrait»
2015 – 2nd place in BelPressPhoto, category «Daily Life»
2020 – winner of Prafota, Grand Prix in DOC category