In 2020, the 17th edition of KAUNAS PHOTO festival was planned to celebrate the periphery, the province, the outback, l’arrière-pays. The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight against it imposed new rules and conceptions, and KAUNAS PHOTO festival invited photographers to present works to KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2020 competition on the topic “Peripheral Visions”, aiming to […]
KAUNAS PHOTO is the longest-running annual photographic festival in the Baltic States, based in Kaunas, Lithuania, since 2004. Maintaining its strong international character, KAUNAS PHOTO is a platform of premieres of emerging talents. “Photo World” (China) titled KAUNAS PHOTO as a festival on crossroads of European photography. The current objective is to become a friendly […]
On October 2, 2019, Vytautas Magnus University Multifunctional Center for Studies and Research (V. Putvinskio St. 23-106) hosted an open lecture “The Internet as a place” by the photographer Heinrich Holtgreve (Germany), in the presence of the cybersecurity expert Dr. Ignas Kalpokas. The lecture was moderated by the professor Kristina Juraitė, Head of the VMU […]
On September 17, 2019, KAUNAS PHOTO festival invited everyone to “Sidewalk talk: Intellectuals’ Roads in Lithuania” – the meeting with the authors Viktoras Bachmetjevas and Vilius Dranseika next to their outdoor exhibition at Emmanuel Levinas square (V. Putvinskio St. 22, at the foot of Žaliakalnis Funicular). “Intellectuals’ roads in Lithuania” by V. Bachmetjevas and V. […]
On September 11, 2019, Vytautas Magnus University Multifunctional Center for Studies and Research (V. Putvinskio St. 23, Kaunas) hosted the opening of the exhibtion “PolandTech” by the Polish photographer Maciek Jazwiecki, followed by an open lecture “Communicating Tech Communities”. These events were a part of the festival’s thematic program “Digital-Virtual-Real”, which explores the impact of […]
Sorry, this entry is only available in Lithuanian. Pasaulio sveikatos organizacijos atliktas tyrimas rodo, kad Lietuvoje patyčių mastas – itin aukštas, nuo jų nukenčia kas ketvirtas vaikas. Su šia problema susiduriama visame pasaulyje, tad gyvai reaguodama į šį fenomeną ir skatindama apie jį diskutuoti, JAV fotomenininkė Haley Morris-Cafiero sukūrė paveikias ir provokuojančias fotografijų serijas, kurias […]
Sorry, this entry is only available in Lithuanian. Nors Lietuva didžiuojasi greičiausiu pasaulyje internetu viešose vietose, mes pernelyg retai susimąstome apie šio įrankio didžiulę įtaką pasauliui ir geopolitiniams procesams. Šie klausimai bus aptarti atviroje paskaitoje „The Internet as a place“ („Internetas kaip vieta“), kuri vyks spalio 2 d., trečiadienį, 13 val., VDU mokslo ir studijų […]
On the 8th June 2019, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Kybartai municipality, KAUNAS PHOTO festival opens the premiere of Mariusz Forecki’s photography exhibition. Polish photographer-documentalist of Lithuanian origin has created this work during his art residencies in Kybartai. The exhibition “Neighbors I Could Not Know” will be displayed in the open air at the churchyard […]
On the 130th anniversary of Ignas Šeinius, KAUNAS PHOTO festival opens an exhibition “Šeinius+Scheynius” (Ignas Šeinius and Lina Scheynius) in Širvintos, native town of the Lithuanian-Swedish writer and diplomat. The exhibition opens on April 3, 2019, 17:30 at Širvintos Cultural Centre (I.Šeiniaus gstr. 4, Širvintos). Among participants of the event will be Ignas Scheynius, grandson […]
On Friday, 21st of September, at 5 pm, the 15th KAUNAS PHOTO Festival invites you to take a walk around the exhibitions of photography, exhibited in Chechnya Square and Kalniečiai Park. Last year, the tour though the outdoor exhibitions by bicycles inspired to look for unconventional ways to visit expositions, so this year everyone is […]