Born: Grimzelės, Kelmė distr., 1 March 1937. Studied at the Faculty of Graphic Art, Vilnius Academy of Arts, 1957–1963. Member of the Lithuanian Union of Art Photographers, 1970.
Major works:
Blossoms among Blossoms (1965–1989); Lithuanian Ethnography (1960–); In the World of Forms (1965–); Visions (2000–); Portraits of Cultural Workers.
One-man exhibitions:
Fujifilm Photo Gallery, Kaunas, 1994; Algimantas Gallery, Panevėžys, 1994; Podkowa Liasna Galeria, Warsaw, Poland, 1997; Baroti Gallery, Klaipėda, 1997; Visions, Prospektas Photo Gallery, Vilnius, 2000; Museum of Photography, Šiauliai, 2001; Photography Gallery, Klaipėda, 2001; Visions, Stiklo karoliukai Gallery, Vilnius, 2002.
Group exhibitions:
Museum of History and Ethnography, Leningrad, Russia, 1972; FNAC-Montparnasse, Paris, France, 1979; The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England, 1980; Center of Photography, Stockholm, Sweeden, 1985; Photography Museum, Helsinki, Finland, 1987; UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, 1987; L’Anne de l’Est, Musee d’ Elyse, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1990; Through Love into Truth, Laband Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 1991; Museum of Photography, Tallinn, Estonia, 1991; International Festival of Diaporamas, Ambérieu en Bugey, France, 1997; Applied Arts Gallery, Vilnius, 1997.
recipient: Merited Worker of Art, 1987; Honorary member of the Lithuanian Union of Art Photographers, 1997. LR Government’s Art Prize, 2003.
Collections:
Lithuanian Union of Art Photographers, Vilnius; Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius; Museum of Photography, Šiauliai; National Museum, Jerusalem, Izrael; Jew’s Museum, Vilnius; Liudas Truikys Memorial Museum, Kaunas.
PUBLICATIONS: Žiedai tarp žiedų, Vilnius: Mintis, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990; 1996;
Bibliography:
Lietuvos fotografija, Vilnius, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1981, 1986, 1987; Fotojarbuch International, Leipcig, 1970/1971, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1980/1981, 1983/1984; International Center of Photography. Encyclopedia of Photography, New York, 1984; Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija v.1, Vilnius, 1985; Photography Year Book, London, 1987/1988; Photographers Engyclopaedia International from 1839 to the Present (Hermance, Switzerland, 1997); Atsisveikinant su XX amžiumi (Vilnius, 2000); Saur Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon v. 27 (Munich-Leipcig, 2001); Lietuvos fotografija iki XXI a. (Vilnius, 2002); Lietuvos fotografija: vakar ir šiandien (Vilnius, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002); Lietuvos dailės istorija (Vilnius, 2002); Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija v. 4 (Vilnius, 2003).
All these photos on the site in the book of the same author „Vizions“
