Every time I look at Algis’ photographs, a snoot gradually replaces the initial smile on my face, and I get a feeling of a lump in my throat. This sensation somewhat reminds the one when you smell autumn in the air for the first time after summer is over; even though you know that you can’t do anything about it, and that the approaching winter is going to pass too, some quiet sadness still crawls in..

Yes, that’s the way life is. That’s the way we are, too…

Yes, that’s the way life is. That’s the way we are, too… Characters precisely arranged by someone between odd things and stage sets.

Nature is the sole constant theme in Algis’ photographs. Everything else consists of ciphered narratives of varying complexity, which conceal existential questions.

Sometimes I wonder why these photographs are so successful in hurting me. The answer comes when I look at Algis himself, rather than his images. He is the way his works are. That is, his works are the way he is. An exceptionally sensitive perfectionist with associative thinking, always drifting somewhere between white and black, tragedy and comedy. A collector of metaphors who sees life as a theatre stage.

When I reflect on Algis’ works, I am always reminded of the idea that photography, while being a very simple medium technologically, is the most complex one in terms of developing a personal and recognisable style. Algis’ photographs cannot be mistaken for anyone else’s.

Text © Eglė Deltuvaitė

Editor
Eglė Deltuvaitė
Texts
Agnė Narušytė
Vaidas Jauniškis
Translator
Jurij Dobriakov
Designer
Jurgis Griškevičius

Sponsors
Culture Support Foundation
Dainius Balčiūnas
Renaldas Vaičiūnas
UAB „Blue Bridge“

Publisher:
„Tyto alba“, 2009
ISBN 978-9986-16-730-3
UDK 77.04(474.5)(084)

Photo © Algis Griškevičius