瓦莱里·卡苏巴于1965年出生在白俄罗斯共和国明斯克地区谢尔盖维奇村（Sergeevichi）。16岁完成学业后，他去了列宁格勒（现在的圣彼得堡）的马卡罗夫海军上将国家海事学院学习，在那里他以优异的成绩完成了北极学院的气象学学位。然后他开始在弗拉德伦·阿达门科院士的指导下进行研究生研究。正是在这个时候，他遇到了记者谢尔盖·加里宁和艺术史学家凯瑟琳·菲利普斯，并在他们的影响下开始了新闻工作。他为圣彼得堡电台和电视台以及BBC电台和电视台制作了作品，并为《生意人报》、《卫报》、《独立报》、《巴黎时尚》等撰写了关于改革时代的圣彼得堡和莫斯科的艺术。他放弃了研究生学习，认识到他的天职在于艺术。20世纪90年代末，他开始与《Vogue》杂志合作，该杂志设立了俄罗斯版，也与《W》杂志和其他杂志合作，为著名摄影师如亚瑟·埃尔格特（Arthur Elgort）， 尼尔·柯克（Neil Kirk）， Philip-Lorca di Corcia（菲利普-洛尔卡·迪·科西亚）和造型师卡塔琳娜·弗洛尔（Katharina Flohr）和卡琳·罗伊特菲尔德（Carin Roitfeld）拍摄照片。2002年，他开始用自己的哈苏拍摄，这是尼尔·柯克的礼物，他成为了他作品的第一个收藏家。
　　瓦莱莱·卡苏巴（目前住在马德里）是一位在摄影、录像和行为艺术家；他同时还撰写故事。他最著名的摄影系列有《形体文化》（2006）、《模特：经典与当代》（2018），《四季 吾友》（2005）。每幅作品都是以叙事的方式创作的，基于艺术和文学的经典传统，基于历史研究，尤其是基于个人观察和感知。为了创作这样的摄影系列，艺术家（作为导演、编舞或教练）与模特--运动员、舞者、演员、马戏团演员、工人或朋友一起工作。他的作品被蓬皮杜中心（巴黎）、俄罗斯博物馆（圣彼得堡）、圣费尔南多皇家美术学院博物馆（马德里）、上海摄影中心等机构收藏。

Valery Katsuba was born in 1965 in the village of Sergeevichi (Minsk Region, Republic of Belarus). After finishing school at the age of 16, he went to study at the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), where he completed a degree in meteorology in the Arctic Faculty with honours. He then commenced postgraduate research under the guidance of Academician Vladlen Adamenko. It was at this time that he met journalist Sergey Kalinin and art historian Catherine Phillips, and under their influence started to work in journalism. He produced pieces for St Petersburg radio and television and for BBC radio and television, and wrote about the art of St Petersburg and Moscow in the age of Perestroika for Kommersant, The Guardian, The Independent, Vogue Paris and others. He gave up his graduate studies, recognising that his vocation lay in art. In the late 1990s, he started to collaborate with Vogue magazine, which set up a Russian edition, also with W Magazine and others producing photoshoots for renowned photographers such as Arthur Elgort, Neil Kirk, Philip-Lorca di Corcia and stylists Katharina Flohr and Carin Roitfeld. In 2002, he started filming with his own Hasselblad, a gift from Neil Kirk, who was to become the first collector of his work.

Valery Katsuba (currently lives in Madrid) is an artist working in the realms of
photography, video and performance; he also writes stories. His best-known
photographic series are Phiscultura (2006), The Model: Classic and Contemporary (2018), The Seasons. My Friends (2005). Each was created as a narrative, based on classical traditions in art and literature, on historical research and, above all, on personal
observations and perceptions. To create such photographic series the artist works (as director, choreographer or trainer) with models - athletes, dancers, actors, circus performers, workers or friends. His works are in the collections of the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Russian Museum (St Petersburg), the Museum of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Madrid), Shanghai Centre of Photography and others.