Igor Malijevský was born in 1970 in Prague, Czech Republic. He graduated in theoretical physics and studied philosophy at Charles University, but since the mid-1990s he has devoted himself primarily to photography and writing.

Malijevský has published several collections of poems and short stories, and his writings can be found in several anthologies, including Best European Fiction 2018.  His most recently published book is the novel Otevřený prostor (Open Plan, 2019).  Malijevský co-established and leads EKG, a well-known monthly literary cabaret in Prague.  His books and poems are based on a poetic understanding of our everyday reality, a style he describes as photography in words.  His works have been translated into Russian, English, Polish, German and other languages.

In his photographic work, Malijevský primarily creates unmanipulated black-and-white photographs naturally continuing the strong tradition of poetic realism in Czech photography. Malijevský uses only film cameras and prints the black-and-white images himself. When an edition is finished, Malijevský destroys the negatives.

In 2003, Malijevský was featured in an exhibit titled The Photographic Eye, curated by Wendy Watriss, and in 2019 in the FotoFest Houston exhibition Velvet Generation, curated by Steven Evans.  His work is represented in collections of Meseet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sarah Morhland Collection, New York, and John Cleary Collection, Houston.