Alena Adamchyk 

Alena Adamchyk is a photographer, publisher and a master of science in biology.

Her childhood she spent in Vilnius. Now she has her studios in Minsk, Vilnius and Riga.

Her first personal exhibition was held in Warsaw and was named “Naked truth”. 

Later her art works were widely exhibited in different European cities – Berlin, Paris, Monte Carlo, Vienna, Vilnus, Barcelona, Budapest, Modena... Her most famous project is that called “Women of Europe” which was launched with the edition of the book "Bielaruski". It was first introduced to the public in 2004 in Vilnius. The presentation of her third book was held in Monaco in July, 2009. At the same time she began her new project “Women of Monaco”, which was successfully presented in Place Du Casino, Monte-Carlo on the 29th of July, 2010. After visiting Beirut, Alena finished her working on the book "Women of Lebanon".

The same year the exhibition of the pictures of Alena was held in the Metropol Gallery in Moscow and in the National library in Minsk. In the 2013 Alena was exhibiting her pictures in the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

In the beginning of the year 2015 the new book “Diamonds of Belarus” was released and presented in the National library in Minsk, where Alena was honored to give the whole collection of her books to the rare books department. The presentations of her books were also held in different European countries. Due to her project “Women of Europe” she published her seven books for the moment. Nowadays Alena dedicate her new works to the ecological issues and already made a new project “She Is Nature” about women ecologists of Belarus. In 2016 Alena took part in the United Nation Organization project “The Inclusive Belarus”.

 Some years ago Alena built her art house and gallery near Minsk, where she makes her shows, presentations and classes for her students.
 

Yadviga Adamchyk 

Yadviga Adamchyk is a photo artist, writer and journalist. She was born in Minsk in 1983, graduated music school in the class of piano. She studied English in LSI School in London, then graduated from the translation department of the Minsk State Linguistic University.

While being a student she became interested in photography, and later started to work as a photographer. Her first photography and journalistic experience she started with the work at magazine "The student thought" and "Your sport". Later she made a series of photographs of players for the hockey club "Yunost Minsk". She made pictures and wrote concepts for advertising products of various brands such as "ARTDECO", "TRANSAEROTURS", "MTB Bank", "Comlimilk", "Frost", "Smolensk Diamonds", "MAGICLI", "ALESYA", "FONTEMA", "FEMMES FATALES", "AVTOBORD" etc.

Yadviga also made her art photo exhibitions in Minsk, Vilnius and Barcelona. She wrote articles and made pictures for different periodicals ( "Women's Magazine", "Jazz Square", "ESH", "Dolce Vita", "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus", "Star", "Taxi", "We go to Lithuania") and news agencies.

Since 2009, is a member of the joint project with Alena Adamchyk "Women of ...", gor which works with images, does translations of the texts and creates the layouts of the books. In 2014 she released her first book of short stories in two languages ( Russian and Belarusian) "One hundred grams of stories".