Photography
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas
travel 'AIR
This is an “accidental” body of work, which started to grow up since 2005 and continue until now. During extensive travels of Mindaugas Kavaliauskas – photographer, curator and expert – frequently flying to and from exhibitions, festivals, portfolio reviews in Europe and beyond its borders, discovered that a camera could be used to depict life, where for most of us time starts to stand still…
PORTRAIT OF KRAŽIAI
“Portrait of Kražiai” is the signature work of Mindaugas Kavaliauskas. Exhibited widely across Europe, also in China and Australia, this documentary work was published as a book in 2009.
AUTO -Portraits & -Landscapes
This is the second-largest long-term photographic project by Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, consisting of pictures taken all across Lithuania. It used to be said that Lithuania was an agricultural country. Today Lithuania is often described as country of beer & basketball. But there is almost no talk about a very special phenomenon, the recent cult of CAR, that started to emerge since 1990. “AUTO -Portraits & -Landscapes” is a work about the automotive culture, a very Lithuanian lifestyle…
RURAL - URBAN Markets
Initially, it was a part of “AUTO -Portraits & -Landscapes”. When Mindaugas Kavaliauskas came back to Lithuania after his studies abroad in 2001, he was fascinated by the vast areas of second-hand car markets in major Lithuanian cities: Vilnius, Kaunas, Marijampolė, Utena. He went to photograph these car-scapes using 4×5 view camera and a panoramic camera.
LIFE (un)SEEN. NEAR THE BLIND
“Life unseen. Near the blind” is about a community of blind and weak-sighted people, whose activities and living place is near a huge building, formerly known as blind’s factory, now hosting social, creative activities, concerts. This is a place where the community meets. The part of the town since decades is called “near the blind”, not only because of the former factory, which now is the social centre, but because the whole part of town around it has a high number of blind or weak sighted people living here since decades.
