Ľubo Stacho was born in 1953 in Handlová, Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Department of Photography at FAMU in Prague (prof. Ján Šmok 1984). In 1990 he introduced the photography study program into the Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts and Design curriculum and currently holds a position of the Head of the Studio Laboratory of Photography Department. Stacho is the winner of several awards, including the Tokyo International Photobiennale, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (1995), 1st Prize at the UNESCO World Heritage Fund Contest (1993). He has held over 70 solo exhibitions so far, and participated in more than 300 collective exhibitions.