Born in 1964 in Minsk
Already at school, Andrei actively attends photographic circles at the newspapers Vecherniy Minsk and Znamya Yunosti, and is engaged in the Minsk photo club.
After graduating from school, he enters the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute .
At the same time, he studies at the Faculty of Social Professions at the Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Photographer-Journalist.
Since 1988, Andrey Shchukin begins to professionally engage in photography.
His two main areas of activity are advertising and artistic photography.