Rimaldas Vikšraitis
photographer
Rimaldas Vikšraitis is a Lithuanian photographer known for his artistic documentary photographs of rural life in his native Lithuania. He graduated from the Vilnius Technical School No. 47 with a specialization in photography and worked as a studio photographer in Šakiai for ten years before focusing on his own work. His practice focuses on capturing realistic, often surreal images of modern-day Lithuanian countryside, depicting themes of drunkenness, poverty, and the disintegration of village life with a mix of humor and dark undertones. He gained significant international recognition in 2009 when he won the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival, having been nominated by Martin Parr.[1,3,4]
- rural life
- drunkenness
- poverty
- post-Soviet disintegration
- Lithuanian countryside
Books
Works by Rimaldas Vikšraitis
- 2011 Grimaces of the Weary Village: Photographs 1976-2006 Selected by Martin Parr.
- 1982 Slaughter Series of visual narratives.
- Nude Series of visual narratives.
Exhibitions
- 2023 Rimaldas Vikšraitis
- 2009 Rimaldas Vikšraitis: Grimaces of the Weary Village
Awards
- 2009 Discovery Award
- 2006 Ministry of Culture of Lithuania premium