Picture Series

I believe that it was the first time I picked up my medium format camera and photographed someone whom I did not know and had a chat with that person. At this moment I understood that it might become my way of telling stories and creating my own voice. You are free to come up with a theme and to analyse it from your own point of view. And if you are lucky you will convince everyone you portray to tell your story as well but through your pictures. It is a truly magical experience.

I came up with the real concept for my “Soon to be Gone” series much later than I started to photograph it. From the early days of my photography, I was truly interested in the early American Documentary work and especially its history of covering the Great Depression era. I was amazed by the strength of the FSA’s work on farmers and I straight away understood that I wanted to do something in that manner. Later I understood that similar migration is happening in Lithuania and I had to document it. What I did later became the “Soon to be Gone” series.

Essential things will never change. It might change in form, might change in voice but it is always about the human and their living conditions. I suppose that photography will change its forms but we will always crave the strong imagery – portraiture, things, locations. I see it growing like a tree – the core will stay, it will just have a lot of branches. At least I hope so, I just love photography as it is.