#sovietphotography

[smailyte]

Vitas Luckus. From series „Pantomime“. 1968–1972.

[artbookdap]

To understand what's going on in Ukraine, it's useful to look at the work of Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus, whose work is collected in four books from @steidlverlag — all reviewed by @meganhullander @documentjournal⁠ ⁠ "For some six decades, @sutkus.photo has been photographing people on the streets of Lithuania. He was only 20 when he first started shooting in Vilnius in 1959, then the capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania. The images he makes are textured—both in the rich whites, blacks, and grays they are composed of, and in the types of lives they depict, rendering the complexity of the ordinary people he encounters wandering the city. Even amid the Soviet occupation that rendered his home country restricted, Sutkus found life.⁠ ⁠ The photographer’s latest book, 'Street Life' is his fourth with Steidl, each of which depicts the Lithuanian people’s subtle and sometimes subconscious assertions of self. His first book, 'Planet Lithuania' (2018), is a record of that spirit, and of the ways in which it’s endured over time. 'Pro Memoria' (2020) collects Sutkus’s photographs of the Kaunas Jews who had escaped death in concentration camps—a penitent and forward-looking perspective of a dark period in Lithuania’s history. 'Children' (2021) details Sutkus’s longstanding fascination with one of his most beloved subjects, and the complexities of their lives; 'children live in a different world,' he once mused. 'Sometimes I succeeded in showing that world.'"⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #antanassutkus #lithuania #lithuanianphotography #sovietphotography⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CpnqWh-pAgQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=