Liza Faktor, born 1975 in Moscow.
Graduated from the Moscow External University of the Humanities (1993, BA, Mass media editing/Journalism). Over the last 12 years worked as a photography producer and curator - at the InterFoto International Photography Festival (1996-1997), Ernst Haas Golden Light Awards (1997), Photographer.ru (1999-2007, co-founder and editor). In 2005 founded Agency.Photographer.ru and worked as the agency director until leaving in 2007.
She received a Howard Chapnick Grant for the project on Central Asia (2002) and curated a number of photography exhibitions. Since 2001 she has been a director of a non-profit, Objective Reality Foundation.

Solo exhibitions:
'Baroque St.Petersburg' (Museum of the history and development of Norilsk Industrial Region, 2005)
'Surface of Siberia' (Krasnoyarsk museum centre, 2003)
Group exhibitions:
'InsideOutside: New Images from Russia' (FotoWeek DC, Washington, 2009)
'Descubrimientos' Finalists (PhotoEspana, Madrid, 2009)
'The Yenisey - River Stories' (International Museum Biennial, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center; Interfoto International Photography festival, Moscow, Novy Manezh Exhibition Hall, 2003)
'PhotoGrafika' (Novosibirsk Fine Arts Gallery, 2002)