Andrej Balco

Výstava / Unavení slnkom

Biography

Andrej Balco (1973) is a Slovak documentary and portrait photographer whose work focuses primarily on social and environmental issues. He studied photography at the Institute of Creative Photography at the University of Silesia in Opava. His work has received numerous awards and grants, including a Changing Faces residency fellowship organised by the International Photographic Research Network (IPRN), based at the University of Sunderland; the Mio Photo Awards in Osaka, Japan; and the Fresh M. I. L. K. Awards in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a multiple winner of the FRAME and Czech Press Photo competitions. In 2010, he received the Journalism Award for his series on women working in the anthracite mines of Ukraine. He is a co-founder of the international photographers’ collective Sputnik Photos and the Slovak Documentary Photography association. Balco is the author of the photobook Domésticas (House of Photography, 2008) and a co-author of several other publications. His work has been exhibited regularly in Slovakia and internationally, including at the House of Photography and Leica Gallery in Prague, at the photography festival in Łódź, and in exhibitions in England, Australia, the Netherlands, Finland, Brazil, and Japan. Since September 2019, he has taught photography at the Faculty of Mass Media at Pan-European University.