Kseniya Halubovich (born 1988) is a photographer, journalist, and filmmaker from Belarus. A prolific reporter, she has worked for various independent Belarusian and international media outlets while developing her own career in documentary photography. Her photographic projects explore human rights, mental health, and social issues; she has also documented COVID-19 intensive care units and refugee camps. Since 2020 and the Belarusian protests, she has directed five short and mid-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. Since 2021, she has been writing and developing her latest project about the refugee crisis, “I Made a Mistake Coming Here.” In 2022, Kseniya left Belarus for Poland to study at the Wajda Film School. She has been based in Poland and Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Her recent work concentrates on Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories and on how Belarus has become dependent on Russian influence.
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/
Exhibitions:
Belarusian Sundays in Red and White (2021, Museum Henry Dunant)
So close, so near: Belarus — a year of struggle as seen by photojournalists (2021, Maison des journalistes, Paris)
Belarus: Everything is different, everything is the same — “Belarus: Alles ist anders, alles ist gleich” (2022, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Dresden)
greencampus.boell.de/de/afar/event%3Abelarus-alles-ist-anders-alles-ist-gleich
The Breath (2022, The H22 City Expo, Helsingborg, Sweden)
Trapped (2024, Kraftwerk Mitte, Dresden)
Where people and beasts wander in the shadow of the wall — “Gdzie ludzie i zwierzęta błąkają się w cieniu muru” (2025, Warsaw, WOK)
Filmography:
“Hello! Why are you silent?” 2019, short documentary (Belarusfilm)
“Motherland is female” middle length documentary film (Current Time.tv)
“Fight for freedom” short documentary (Current Time.tv)
“Right to know” short documentary (Current Time.tv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlkTaAhdyBc
“Belarusian Youth” short documentary (Current Time.tv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_liBm_2GIH8
“In standby” short documentary (Current Time.tv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhkOSt5GyOM&t=884s
“Aren’t They Here?” (WAYA Production, Current Time.tv)
www.youtube.com/watch? v=EQXHYCDYhZk& t=254s
www.youtube.com/watch? v=6Q7cBfm9QDw
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/
Tut.by, Bird in Flight, 34mag.net, Imena, Citydog.by, Die Welt
Current time.tv, ARTE.tv, NHK, SRF