How I searched for the photographic mark

 This is more of a commentary on the creative path, based on photographs of personal experience and testing other people’s theories. From an early age, Alvydas Lukys noticed that pictures can tell stories, they simply act as illustrations. Photography is no different – you tend to look for a story in it, even if it’s not an illustration of one. A photograph is simply a representation of how things are. But the need for narrative is, I think, universal. Roland Barthes is not the only one addressing this.

Alvydas Lukys (b. 1958, Šiauliai) graduated from the Vilnius Engineering Construction Institute (now Gediminas Technical University) in 1984. Between 1990 and 1994, he was Head of the Photography Studio, and since 1994 Head of the Video Studio at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. There he acted as Head of the Department of Photography and Media Art from 1997 to 2019. In 2007, he was awarded the title of Professor. Alvydas Lukys is an honorary member of the Lithuanian Photographers Association.

Key works: "Fragments" (1983–1984); "Ethnographic Stones" (1984); "Metaphors" (1987); "Krikštai from Nida" (1987–1990); "Things from the Sea" (1988–1992); "Things in the Studio" (1991–1996); "Stone Vision" (1992–1996); "Photo Canvas" (1996); "Counting the End" (2003), "Ars Botanica" (2006-), "Not Only the Roots" (2020).