Antanas Sutkus
Antanas Sutkus
August 23, 2015
Antanas Sutkus, Blind Pioneer, Kaunas, 1962
© Antanas Sutkus
Artistic photography in the Soviet Union at the end of the sixties, was very much influenced by Sutkus's moving and realistic photographs. His charismatic personality also played a role. He developed an active approach to exhibiting, which helped make Lithuanian photography better known. He deals with his own work in an unusually open way.
Sutkus began taking pictures of people in his home-country in the fifties. He worked for decades on People from Lithuania, an as-yet incomplete cycle. His aim was and is to capture those valuable moments offered by nature and by people. Nowadays, his work is considered a photographic account of a social, political and artistic era.
Further information available at: Hiltawsky Gallery
Antanas Sutkus, Blind Pioneer, Kaunas, 1962
© Antanas Sutkus
Antanas Sutkus, Marathon in University Street, Vilniuns, 1959
© Antanas Sutkus
Antanas Sutkus, Jean-Paul Sartre in Lithuania, Nida, 1965
© Antanas Sutkus