Gerd Waliszewski was born in Oklahoma City, USA and grew up in Poland and Germany. He graduated in Economics at the University of Giessen, in 2021. The following year he started to study photography at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin. In the fall of 2022 he was chosen as a participant in the Nikon-NOOR Academy-Workshop on Advanced Storytelling in Düsseldorf. In April 2023, he got nominated for the Swiss mentoring programme “TruePicture”. Currently, he’s continuing his work on young Ukrainians and his studies at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in the graduation class of Sibylle Fendt.

His interest orbits around topics related to Central and Eastern Europe, especially with regard to the influence and consequences of political processes on young people. In his previous projects, he dealt with the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, and the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine.

He published his works with FK Magazine, the Latvian contemporary photography journal . He was part of the group exhibition of the collective BREEDLIJN in March 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium and part of Der Greif group show in June 2023 in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany.