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Photos by this Slonim native are exhibited worldwide — through them she also tells about the dictatorship in Belarus PHOTOS

Sasha Velichko is a 32-year-old artist and photographer from Slonim, who explores difficult topics in her work: trauma, emigration, imprisonment, and propaganda. She became the first Belarusian laureate of the prestigious Konrad Pustola Memorial Award for Polish photographers, won the main prize of The SEEEU Photo Essay Award within the first European Month of Photography in Japan, and her works are exhibited worldwide.

Sasha Velichko. Here and below — photos from personal archive

Recently, Sasha received support from Fotofestiwal (Łódź) for her project "Called to the Carpet," dedicated to the biopolitical control over women political prisoners in Belarus.

It will be possible to see all the artist's works from this series in Łódź from June 19 to July 12.

What do this artist's photographs tell? For the "Called to the Carpet" project, the author prepared a series of portraits of imprisoned women, printed on a carpet. The initiatives "Palitvyazynka" and "Pink Scarves" helped her in the process.

Sasha's project "State of Denial" explored how people function in a digital world saturated with fake news, deepfakes, and media manipulation.

Drawing on real stories of detentions in Belarus, she created staged photographs that showed the absurdity and cruelty of life under dictatorship.

For this project, the Belarusian artist also received the Grand Prix Les Boutographies 2025 – one of Europe's leading festivals of authorial photography.

Before forced emigration after the events of 2020, the photographer extensively shot Belarus and documented the world and people around her. Including her native Slonim.

Alexandra's works have been presented in France, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain, Singapore, and Japan. Currently, they can also be found in the Polish contemporary art gallery Jednostka.

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