The author will present his current project My Eyes Have Seen, which tells the stories of deportees who are still alive today. Alongside this, he will also touch upon the already developed series Last Year’s Snow. He will share reflections on the narrative form and its intended purpose of addressing national traumas.
He will also discuss the series Seventh Day, developed in collaboration with fellow photographer Artūras Morozovas, focusing on the challenges of finding photographic subjects in the regions of contemporary Lithuania, and how this series became key to reaching the individuals he sought out – and providing a reason to get to know them more closely.
In addition, he will briefly present the Georgia Diary series and how it evolved from a collection of travel visuals into a coherent photographic project, drawing a resonance with his earlier series That Which Will No Longer Be.
Photo from the Seventh Day series
Tadas Kazakevičius is a Lithuanian-based documentary photographer whose work often follows a humanistic direction, exploring personal life stories.
His photographic series have received recognition from prestigious awards such as World Press Photo, Leica Oskar Barnack, and LensCulture Exposure. His works have been exhibited internationally at renowned photography festivals including Jimei x Arles 2020 (China), Xposure (UAE), Photaumnales (France), and Nuit de la Photo (Switzerland), and published in The British Journal of Photography.
His photography has been exhibited in Germany, France, China, the USA, the UK, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Spain, South Korea, and Taiwan.
As a freelance photographer, Kazakevičius collaborates with publications such as National Geographic, TIME, The Guardian, Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times, Monocle, Libération, and Le Monde.
He is currently working on themes including the memory of the Siberian deportations, the disappearance of industrial workers, faith as a bond within communities, and the country of Georgia.
Tadas Kazakevičius is the laureate of the Neringa Mayor’s Prize for a Photographer in 2024.
Photo by Mariam Abshilava
