La Chaux-de-Fonds, known as the Swiss capital of horlogerie and a UNESCO protected urban monument is hosting the second Photography Night on the evening of February 16, 2013, the day of Lithuania’s Independence.
One of numerous screens on five locations of this one-night festival will loop a 5 minutes-long presentation of “Portrait of Kražiai” by Lithuanian photographer Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, the only representative of Central/Eastern Europe among the two dozens of selected photographers.
Among the highlights of the Photography Night are images by the Swiss legendary photographer Rene Buri, winner of the last year’s Photography Night Christian Lutz, Discovery award winner of Arlies festival of 2012 Jonathan Torgovnik (Izrael) and other emerging photographers from Switzerland, France, Island, Spain, Japan and Korea.
La Chaux-de-Fonds is known to lovers or art, design and architecture as the birthplace of Le Corbusier, one of the prominent figures of modernism.
“Portrait of Kražiai” is the signature work of Mindaugas Kavaliauskas. Since its creation in 2002, the series was widely exhibited in Lithuania and Europe: Finland, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, Grance, Netherlands, also in China and Australia.
In 2009 “Portrait of Kražiai” was published as a book by “Šviesos raštas”, featuring 141 pictures.
For more information about the Photography Night see here.
The released photograph book is distributed online at Artbooks.lt
Preview the movie to be screened at Photography Night:
