This talk will focus on my recent works from series Mellow Apocalypse, Shelter and Melancholic Road. Interested in the fate of the canonised artistic, scientific and journalistic images and their potential to embody contemporary meanings, I will talk about artistic ideas related to open source collections of art museums, scientific institutions and various image banks whose archives may be considered iconic testimonies of the present and the past.

Alnis Stakle (1975, Latvia) is Latvian photographer and the Professor of photography at the Rigas Stradins University. He holds PhD in art education from Daugavpils University. Since 1998, his works has been exhibited widely, including solo & group exhibitions at the Latvian Museum of Photography, Latvian National Museum of Art, Modern Art Oxford (GB), Art Center ‘Winzavod’ in Moscow (RU), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires (AR), Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR in Brussells (BE), in addition to being held in private and public collections. His works has been published in British Journal of Photography, GUP, Wired, Camera Austria, EYEMAZING, IMAGO, OjodePez, Archivo, Leica Fotografie International, ect.