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IRYNA ARAKHOUSKAYA

A photographer and a journalist

Born in Minsk, based out of Warsaw. Since 2012 working for the leading independent media in Belarus, collaborating with foreign media.

Work with visual storytelling, working with text, photo, collage and video.

Interests include documentary storytelling, human rights, social issues, and ecology.

Trained the documentary photography program at the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School in Łódź аnd at Docdocdoc school in St. Petersburg.

Publication

Exhibitions

“Sleep Well” — Gallery Duży Pokój, Warsaw, Poland (2024)
“Sleep Well” — Interphoto Festival, Warsaw, Poland (2024)
“Sleep Well” — Open Art Workshops named after Eugeniusz Geppert, Wrocław, Poland (2024)
Month of Photography in Minsk — Berlin, Germany (2021)
Month of Photography in Minsk Photo Festival — Łódź, Poland (2021)
Photo Gallery Neue Osten / Neuropa, Dresden, Germany (2021)
“The Future of Belarus, Fueled by Women” — MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania (2020)
Gallery Duży Pokój, Warsaw, Poland (2020)
“The Future of Belarus, Fueled by Women” — Fotografiska Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia (2020)
“Belarus. The Road to Freedom” — Warsaw, Poland (2020)
“Belarus 2020. Trauma and Laughter” — Rozdroża Gallery, Lublin, Poland (2020)
“A Face Occupying a Flower” — group exhibition, Minsk, Belarus (2015)

Awards

2023 — Free Speech Awards, 3rd place (Photos to Stories): “Never Ask a Prisoner ‘How Are You?’ – Conversation with Daria Chultsova on Day 38 After Prison”
2019 — Free Speech Awards, 3rd place: “Olmany. Swamp Under Threat” (special project)
2017 — FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany): MASHA – Love Story of a Girl Ill with Cancer
2017 — Free Speech Awards, 3rd place (Best Informational Material): “Nazira and Mansur. Why Are They Running?”
2016 — Free Speech Awards, 1st place (Best Artistic Publication): MASHA – Love Story of a Girl Ill with Cancer

Contacts

irynaarakhouskaya@gmail.com