Kseniya Halubovich (1988) is a photographer, journalist and filmmaker from Belarus. A prolific journalist, she has worked for different independent Belarusian and foreign medias, while pursuing her own career in documentary photography. She worked on photo projects about human rights, mental illness, social issues, made photos in covid intensive care and refugees camp. Since 2020 and the protests in Belarus, she has directed 5 short and middle-length documentaries for Current Time TV. She is the author of an online diary for Arte.tv, focused on life in Belarus during and after the Revolution. She has been writing and developing her latest project about refugees crisis, “I Made a Mistake Coming Here”, since 2021. In 2022, Kseniya left Belarus for Poland to study in Wajda Film School. She base in Poland and Ukraine since the beginning of the full scale war in Ukraine.
Education:
2007-2009 and 2016- 2019 — Belarusian State Academy of Arts (Faculty of Screen Arts, TV directing)
2015-2016 — Belarusian Union of designers and Vadim Kachan course of art
photography
2017 — Donald Weber’s workshop in “Bird in flight” school (Kyiv)
2022 — Wajda School (Programm “Film Bridge Belarus”)
Awards:
2019 — Shortlisted in the German Peace Prize for Photography
2019 — International Photography Grant, portrait nominee
2020 — Shortlisted in The Global Peace Photo Award
2021 — Franco-German Journalism Prize (Multimedia category)
2023 — East Doc Platform Award
2024 — Belarusian Film Critics Award “RED HEATHER” Best Documentary Short Film “Belarusian Youth”
Books:
“H — The Notion of Humanist Photography”, project “Current Address”
shop.kaunasgallery.lt/en/product/h-the-notion-of-humanist-photography/
Publications:
fastforward.photography/gallery/princess-milana/
www.platformb.art/homeless-under-an-alien-rainbow/
watchdocs.pl/aktualnosci/watch-docs-poleca-arte-po-polsku
austausch.org/en/2024/03/07/interview-with-kseniya-halubovich/
Video:
www.arte.tv/de/videos/117508-000-A/polen-belarussische-oppositionelle-im-exil/
www.youtube.com/watch? v=6Q7cBfm9QDw
www.youtube.com/watch? v=_liBm_2GIH8& t=364s
www.youtube.com/watch? v=xhkOSt5GyOM& t=115s
Tut.by, Bird in Flight, 34mag.net, Imena, Citydog.by, Die Welt
Current time.tv, ARTE.tv, NHK, SRF