In the banner for HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, photographer Pasha Kritchko, winner of the PORTRAITS – Hellerau Photography Award 2025, examines the ongoing aftermath of Belarus’s 2020 crisis. As repression persists and exile communities grow, his work traces displacement, resistance, and identity beyond borders. Blending personal experience with documentary practice, he reveals how authoritarian control stays in power and why Belarus is a warning to other nations.