Pavel Tereshkovets is an art and documentary photographer from Belarus – the last dictatorship of Europe. Raised up in a travelling addicted family where the father was an alpinist and a photographer, Pavel began to make photographs already in his childhood. He travelled a lot and had visited almost all countries of Europe, as well as former soviet countries, Israel, the Jordan, South Africa and the USA already by the age of 20. Using old soviet cameras he tried to capture the naive reality as it was.
He graduated from the linguistic university in Minsk, the capital of the country, and began to think over his future. After working for a year in an office, he realized that was something he couldn’t deal with so he dropped the job and got back to photography. After trying himself in lots of different genres, he finally came to art and documentary photography which he felt very familiar with. That was the point when he started developing his own ideas and projects and letting them come into being.
In 2011 he was chosen by the National Geographic jury as a runner-up in the Vale’s Eye on Sustainability Photo Contest. This gave him another serious impulse to work further on his personal projects.
Pavel Tereshkovets’ works are widely filled with the ideas of loneliness, isolation, and emptiness. He tries to uncover the human being’s nature and its deep feelings, fears and instincts. On one hand he appeals to the reality as an observer looking at the world through the viewfinder, and on the other lets it through his own perception to make not just nice pictures but serious with meaning — which can force the viewers to thoughts and ideas.
His new project about the nighttime in Belarus undoubtedly referencing us to the critical political situation in the country went out early in the new year 2012.
Links:
Website: www.tereshkovets.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/grapemile
Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/tereshkovets
beautiful images