Born in Minsk (Belarus) Soviet Union in 1962. Studied cibernetics and automatic control systems at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics from 1980. In 1985 he graduated with the  University Degree of an Electrical Engineer. Since 1985 he worked as an engineer in Minsk until 1991. In 1980 he had his first practice of scuba diving at Minsk School of Voluntary Society to Support Army, Air Forces and Navy with instructor Valery Burtsev (he resumed scuba diving  at Sea Pegas Diving Club, in Minsk, with instructor Andrey Likhachyov, PADI, 2003 and took further technical courses in 2004 with Sergey Borisov, TDI, Hurghada, Egypt in 2004). Started working with photography in 1989 when he got engaged with Valery Lobko’s Creative Photography Studio. In 1990 Savchenko received a Prize by Kodak-Pathe Foundation at Salon International de la Recherche Photographique, Royan, France, 1990.

First solo exhibition: Galleri Index/ Fotograficentrum, Stockholm. In the period of 1994-1995 he stareted writing texts and prose. In 1997 he declared an abandonment from creation of new photographic works and started various textual and mixed media projects, 1998-2005. Certified as Adv Tx TDI multigas mixtures diver with instructor Andrey Chistyakov; Trimix Deep Diving master-class at Chistyakov and diving with him to the depth of 192 meters, The Blue Hole, Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt, 2005.Resumed taking pictures in autumn of 2006.

Lives and works in Minsk, Belarus.

Founded in 2009, pARTisan’s Collection Series represents the best of Belarusian modern art. At the end there are 32 albums in the collection (the number of letters in the Belarusian alphabet), which together constitute a unique encyclopedic visual alphabet, a gallery of modern Belarusian culture. 

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the series – Artur Klinau 

The album is available in Minsk bookstores!