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2025 : RUINS OF BELARUS

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Official presentation on December 15, 2025 

Concept author, project curator, photo editor, introduction: LESIA PCHOLKA
Cataloging, library search and architecture descriptions: ASIA CHMYZ
Author of the essay and editing architecture descriptions: ULADZIMIR HRAMOVICH
Consultants: Viciebsk region – KASTUŚ ŠYTAL, Homiel region – YAUHEN MALIKAU, Hrodna region – STEPAN STUREIKO, Mahilioŭ region – ALIEH DAVID LISOŬSKI 

Graphic design: KAROLINA PIETRZYK, TOBIAS WENIG
Format: 240 × 320 mm
Pages: 256 
Cover: Munken Lynx 400g. Inside pages: Munken Print White, 115g

PUBLISHED BY : 
ISBN 978-83-66262-30-0 Galeria Arsenał w Białymstoku
ISBN 978-83-972232-6-4 Centrum Kultury Białoruskiej w Białymstoku 

Print run: 500 copies

2022 : LUDZI LESU

The book "People of the Forest" explores the relationship between humans and the wild. It tells the story of the forest — a space that has always held deep significance in the history of Belarus. A source of accessible resources and a place of magical power. A wall behind which one could hide to fight for freedom. It is also a place that can become dangerous when there is no way out.

Project curator: Lesia Pcholka
Editor: Lidziya Martynovich
Archive coordinator: Anastasiya Valkovich
Text authors: Lidziya Martynovich, Uladzimir Hramovich, Anastasiya Valkovich
Graphic design: Yana Halushkina
Belarusian language editor: Alyaksandra Dorskaya
English translator: Natalka Kharytaniuk

Self-published. Print : Petit sk. Lublin (commissioned by the VEHA archive)
ISBN: 978-83-65133-44-1 Print run: 200 copies

2021 : Dziavočy viečar
& Apošni fotazdymak

This set of two books, "Hen Night" and "The Last Photograph", is dedicated to two of the most significant themes in 20th-century Belarusian everyday photography: weddings and funerals. These two life events were among the most frequently documented, and thus are the most commonly found in Belarusian family photo archives. Together, the books present a retrospective of 100 years of Belarusian visual history, showing how these rituals looked and how their visual representation evolved over time.

Project curator: Lesia Pcholka
Book editor: Lidziya Mikheeva
Text authors: Dziyana Pinchuk, Anastasiya Valkovich, Lidziya Mikheeva
Graphic design: Alyaksandr Luchyna
English translator: Yulia Timafeeva. Editor: Valzhyna Mort

Self-published. Print : Galiyafs Publishing House (commissioned by the VEHA archive)
ISBNs: 987-985-7209-75-0, 987-985-7209-76-7 Print run: 300 copies 

2018 : Najlepšy bok 

The collection of portraits photographed against the background of hand-woven carpets tells us about the images of beauty and well-being in the minds of the villagers of Belarus in the 1920s-50s. The works of traveling photographers imitate a studio photo with the help of decorative homemade fabric, but also allow in the frame details that are impossible in a photo studio like house logs or an object of pride - a bicycle. Conceived as a neutral background, the bedspreads and rugs prove to be an important source of knowledge about the local weavers.

Project curator: Lesia Pcholka
Book editor: Lidziya Mikheeva
Text authors: Volha Hrytsuk, Volha Labacheuskaya, Lidziya Mikheeva
Graphic design: Alyaksandr Luchyna

Self-published. Print : Yanushkevich Publishing House (commissioned by the VEHA archive)
ISBN: 978-985-7165-83-4 Print run: 200 copies