He obtained a master’s degree in Art Education from Herson State University, mixing traditional ink drawings with 3D graphics. Since then he has worked as a designer in various areas: graphic, motion, interaction.
After university, he joined a community grouped around “Totem” cultural center and has got influenced by such artists as Stas Volyazlovskiy, Slava Mashnitskiy, Max Afanasiev. In 2012 he focused on photography and moved to Lviv. He met Elena Subach and they started to work as an artistic duo.
Viacheslav is a finalist of Foam Talents, Vienna Photobook Festival, Circulations, Krakow Photomonth Showoff, Fotofestival Lodz Grand Prix, Prix Levallois. His works were published in the Foam Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, GUP magazine, Lensculture, The Washington Post.
In 2022, one of his personal exhibitions during the last years “Subach / Poliakov / 2022” in Szara gallery, in scope of Друг друга / Druh Druha — Ukrainian art in galleries of Warsaw (PL).
In addition, Vyacheslav participated in group projects and exhibitions during the last year: “Ukraine Unmuted” by Cultural Strategy Institute (UA) in Kaunas Center of Architecture (LV), “Stand with Ukraine” is the scope of Photaumnales festival (#19 Cartographies) in Palace Saint-Etienne (Beauvais, FR) by Diaphane photographic centre, “The Path to Freedom” by Noorderlicht at Akerk, Groningen (NL), etc.