Valentyna Bilousova

Valentyna Bilousova (UA, 1951) graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Civil Engineering and Construction (today—Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture) in 1975. She got interested in photography in the mid-1970s; at that time, she met the key personality of the Kharkiv School of Photography—Boris Mikhailov. He worked at the local water utility, where Valentyna Bilousova got a job during her senior year at the institute. As a part of the Kharkiv photo community, she attended the regional camera club at the Trade Union Amateur Arts House and the Semafor camera club at the Palace of Culture of the Railway workers. In 1978–1985 Valentyna Bilousova worked as a photographer at the construction technical school, after which she got a position at the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture (1985–2006). Between 2011 and 2022 she worked as a photographer at the regional gallery Mystetstvo Slobozhanshchiny (Kyiv).