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Sergey Brushko

1958 – 2000

One of the most famous photojournalists in Belarus. He worked in documentary photography, most of his works are close to the style of Cartier-Bresson's photographs.

He worked as a photojournalist for the newspapers "Kaliyshchyk Saligorshchyny", "Chyrvonaya Zmena", "Narodnaya Gazeta".

In his works, he not only documented the upheavals of the era of perestroika and glasnost. He preserved the spirit of that time in them, collecting characters, destinies and stories in his photographs - stories of suffering, fear, independence, hope and the strength of new life.

Lived and worked in Minsk.

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May 28, 1958

Born in the urban village of Gorodeya, near the city of Nesvizh, Minsk region (BSSR, now the Republic of Belarus).

1980s-1990s

He worked as a photojournalist for the publications “Chyrvonaya Zmena” and “Narodnaya Gazeta”.

1998

Participant of the Belarusian-Swiss exhibition and publishing project “In the jokes of Belarus. The twelfth year of chasing Charnobyl” (together with the Swiss photographer Hugo Jaeggi).

2000

The photographer died from Raynaud's syndrome.

2013

In 2013, photographs of Sergei Brushko were published in the album “Press Photo of Belarus”, in the section about the archive of Belarusian photography. All photographs were considered extremist.