FK Magazine has launched the Latvian Photography Yearbook that for the second year in a row is the platform for those few interesting, artistically attractive and thematically abundant photo projects that have been implemented by Latvian photographers.
This year, series of five Latvian photographers have been included in the Yearbook. The series focus on the human being, it’s identity and relationship with the surrounding environment. Ieva Epnere has taken photographs of school children on the first day of school, Roman Drits offers personal impressions on the life in emigration, Andrejs Strokins has documented the mundane everyday in Bolderāja, Zane Fišele has interpreted the attitude of Latvian towards Estonians, but Arnis Balčus has examined the provincial landscape of little Latvian towns.
One photo print has been included in each publication, thus everyone who obtains a publication will have an opportunity to enjoy a photograph from one of the photographers included in the Yearbook.
The publication also features an essay by Sergejs Kruks on the photographer Egons Spuris included in the Latvian canon of culture, as well as the article by British academic and researcher David Bate on the role of documentary photography nowadays.
The book is available online on FK Magazine.
Photographs by Ulla Perkune
