Biography

Andrej Balco is a Slovak documentary and portrait photographer with primary interest in social and environmental issues. He studied photography at the Institute of Creative Photography of the Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic. He has received numerous awards and grants for his work, including residential scholarship Changing Faces awarded by the IPRN international network, Mio Photo Awards from Osaka (Japan) or Fresh M.I.L.K. Awards from Auckland (New Zealand). He is a multiple winner of the FRAME and Czech Press Photo contests. For his project on female labour in Anthracite, Ukraine, he was awarded the Photojournalism Prize 2010. Andrej is the co-founder of the Sputnik Photos international photographers' collective, author of the publication Domésticas (House of Photography, 2008) and co-author of several other books. He regularly exhibits his works at home and abroad. He is also a photography teacher at university and is based in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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