Aliaksei Bibikau / Belarus
Photo location: Belarus
Biography for printing in the catalogue (up to 2.000 characters): Aliaksei Bibikau (Aleksey Bibikov), Belarusian photographer, from Grodno, Belarus.
2008-2011-photojournalist, Shchuchin district newspaper “Dzyannica” (Grodno region)
2011-2012 – photojournalist, regional newspaper “Grodzenskaja Prauda”.
2012 – Freelance photographer
Photography is the most incredible adventure that happened once in my life”. Now a days I “stop the moment”. The work of a photojournalist can feel a bit “chronicler”, gives a huge scope for creativity, gives an unforgettable meeting and events, which remain not only in photographs but also in my heart. Prefer genre, street and wedding photography. Great influence on the development of my photographic vision and thinking was provided by the works of Henri Cartier Bresson, Diane Arbus, Antanas Sutkus, from belarusian photographers: Vladimir Parfenok, Sergey Brushko, Victor Butra.
Personal photo exhibition: “Trakt Krasnogrudzki” – Poland, Sejny, 2007; “Eternal spring” Shchuchyn, 2008; “Moments” – Shchuchin, 2009; 24 frame by frame” – Minsk, 2010, the Pobeda cinema; exhibition of wedding photographs “don’t be late with the Declaration of love”, Shchuchin 2013;
Collective exhibition: “Young press photography in Belarus”, 2008; “time Archive” Minsk, 2010, cinema Victory; “In me will fit both worlds – an exhibition on the results of the contest of young artists of the CIS – Baku, 2010; “Press-photo of Belarus-2011”, Minsk, Studio Snata; “Victory Parade” – tel Aviv, Israel, 2010, “Press-photo of Belarus-2013 “-Minsk, Studio Snata” 2013. Exhibition of wedding photos “the Great Kahane” exhibition hall, Grodno, 2014.
Contests
“Press-photo of Belarus-2011” 2nd place in the category of Everyday life (series), a nationwide creative competition “My genre” 3rd place in the category “professional photographers”; “Victory Parade” – tel Aviv, Israel, 2010; “In me will fit both worlds – an exhibition on the results of the contest of young artists of the CIS – Baku, 2010. Nomination ” For the best expression of the idea “. Time archive” Minsk, 2010″ Festival of street photography(1/10/11-1/05/12) – Moscow 2012, non-Competition nomination: the Foundation of Yuri Rybczynski and Eduard Gladkov photo “Vanishing”.
“Press-photo of Belarus-2013” 2nd place in the category of tradition, Minsk, 2013.