On October 7, 2020, KAUNAS PHOTO festival held education and projection evening “Your room as a camera. How can you do it?” at the Kaunas Municipal Vincas Kudirka Public Library Park Branch, with the screening of “obs-cu-ra” by Bruno Alencastro (Brazil) and “Camera obscura. Savanoriai” by Darius Kuzmickas (Lithuania/USA) and an educational session with the […]
On October 1, 2020, the coordinator of KAUNAS PHOTO festival Karolina Krinickaitė led educational tours “Places of painful historical memory and dark tourism” for the students of Kaunas Juozas Grušas Art Gymnasium at the Kaunas IX Fort Memorial Complex, next to the exhibition “I was here (Dark Tourism)” by Ambroise Tézenas (France).
On September 30, 2020, on the last day of the exhibition “Restaurateurs by chance” at Kaunas Cultural Center of Various Nations, the festival KAUNAS PHOTO held a meeting (artist talk) with the author of the exhibition, KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2020 finalist Mikhail Lebedev (Russia). In the virtual meeting, the artist presented his work, told more […]
On September 19, 2020, festival KAUNAS PHOTO participated in the Žemieji Šančiai community festival “Šančinės 2020”. At noon, the excursion “Pajausk, tai—Šančiai!” led by Rolanda Girskiene started from Šančiai polyclinic. During the excursion, the guide stopped in the already traditional space of KAUNAS PHOTO exhibitions in Žemieji Šančiai district—the square near the State Tax Inspectorate […]
As a part of the 17th KAUNAS PHOTO festival’s program “Peripheral Visions” in Lazdijai and commemorating the 30th anniversary of the “European Way”, from 24 August until 18 September 2020 the Lazdijai Region Museum (Seinų St. 29, Lazdijai) hosted an exhibition by Mindaugas Kavaliauskas (Lithuania) “The European Way without red. 1990-08-23” about the huge Sąjūdis […]
On September 17, 2020, we had guests come to the festival – the students of the Photography study programme of the Kaunas University of Applied Sciences attended an educational tour “Peripherial Visions” of KAUNAS PHOTO 2020 exhibitions by the festival’s coordinator Karolina Krinickaitė. We are joyful to see young faces interested in Photography. […]
On September 3, 2020, the exhibition opening tour of the 17th KAUNAS PHOTO festival’s competition KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2020 Finalists took place in Kaunas. At the end of the tour the Winners of the KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2020 Award were announced – the Italian duo of artists Chiara Panariti and Gianfranco Ferraro with their work […]
The exhibition opening marathon of the 17th KAUNAS PHOTO festival rippled across the city of Kaunas and culminated with the announcement of the winners of the KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2020 Award. Out of ten photographic series that made to the finals, “Cronostasi”, created by the Italian duo of artists Chiara Panariti and Gianfranco Ferraro, was […]
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. […]