Andrei Liankevich, Belarusian photographer, born 1981 in Grodno and based in Minsk (Belarus). Liankevich obtained his BA in Economics from Belarusian State University. In 2004-2005 he studied at the Caucasus Media Institute in Yerevan, Armenia. As a part of the programme, he spent several months living and travelling with the Yezids minority in Armenia, and his final photo project about the lives of the Yezids’ life received an award from the World Press Photo seminar. In September 2007 Andrei was invited to take part in the Focus on Monferrato master class project i n Tuscany (Italy). In June 2008 he participated in a programme supported by the French Association Pour l’Instant, shooting a photo story on “Modern family institutions”.

Liankevich taught a course on Photojournalism at the European Humanity University/Belarusian University, in Vilnius (Lithuania). Since 2005 he has cooperated with the European Press Photo Agency (EPA) and in 2007 he joined the Anzenberger Agency in Vienna. In 2008 Andrei joined collective of young photographers- SPUTNIK.

Liankevich has worked with Nasha Niva, one of the few independent Belarusian newspapers, during 2001-2008. His works are also published in such international media as The New York Times, Le Figaro, Newsweek, Die Zeit, Spiegel, GEO, GEOlino and the International Herald Tribune.

Andrei Liankevich has presented his photographic oeuvre in more than 30 exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the USA; e.g. the exhibition “She has female name” at the Galera Gallery (Vilnius,Lithuania),  the exhibition “Focus on Belarus” at the “Acud” Gallery (Berlin, Germany) , “Young Belarus” at the  Corridor Galery of Warsaw University. He has also participated in collective exhibitions such as  the exhibition “She has female name”  was presented at the Museum of Modern Art (Vienna, Austria), “The Belarusian Identity cART”, with  his personal project "Dream city life" at ART HALL Gallery, (Tallinn, Estonia) and he showed his "Unknown Country” photo project as part of the Third Month of European Photography in Uferhallen, Berlin (Germany).  He also participated in the Belarus Venice Biennale in Minsk (Belarus) .

In 2008 the first  catalog of works by Andrei Liankevich was published. Later that year his photos were included in the  photo book  East, published by Anzenberger, and in Break Lines. Touch Points (the photo story Unknown Country), published by Reporters without Borders. And “This day of Change” photo book having 132 photographers of the project, published in Japan.

_{In 2009 Andrei wins prize at the Humanity Photo Awards 2009 with his work about ”Pagan traditions in Belarus”  and late that year  the project was among finalists of  “Magnum Expression Award”.  Later this year wins 1st Prize at the Polish Photography Contest dedicated to 170 Years of Photography. In 2010 Andrei got 1st prize in Belarus Press Photo 2010 contest in “People in news” category and won OSCE photo contest.}