Валерий Бысов

I was born on 24th of October in 1946 in small town Krichev in Mogilev region of the Republic of Belarus. It was USSR times and my country called BSSR (Belorussia). My mother was growing me up. My father left family, when I just appeared on that earth. But when I was 12 years old in my life had began great changes. The place of my father took stepfather Victor, who gifted to me camera «Fed». It was in 1958. I felt the passion to shoot and make photos. Since then, I had begun to study photography. I learnt to print photos by myself as well. My first publication was in pioneers newspaper «Zorka», which circulation counted millions copies across whole USSR, when I was 14 years old boy. Notwithstanding, all my life I was working as a correspondent in different local newspapers. And almost all main newspapers of USSR were publishing my works («Pravda», «Izvestija», «Selskaja jizn», «Zvezda», «Trud», «Krasnaja Zvezda», «Soviet Patriot» and magazines – «Journalist», «Ogonek», «Krokodile» and etc). But several times I was nearly fired for shooting «not good things». In 1979 I have attended the funeral of priest, but Faith was strongly forbidden in USSR times. All my works were made by soviet cameras «Zenith», «Kiev», «Luibitel», «Smena»,...

I did not have proper education in photography field. I have graduated the School of photo correspondents in Minsk (3 month courses) in 1965.

1996 - International exhibition of my photos about Belarus was organized in many cities of Japan.
2011 - About Konstantin Simonov (writer), Krichev, Mogilev region, Republic of Belarus.