When he started using a camera there were very few documentary photographers working outside the government. Sutkus instead looked to writers and film-makers, and says he drew inspiration from the works of Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and Vladimir Nabokov. Here: The first Lithuanian bikers, 1974. (Photo by Antanas Sutkus)
Most of Sutkus’s images were taken during the 1960s and 1970s, documenting aspects of the country’s troubled relationship with Soviet rule and the poverty endured during that period. Here: At the Baltic Sea, Giruliai, 1972. (Photo by Antanas Sutkus
The photographer’s work is now featured in a new version of his seminal exhibition, Nostalgia for bare feet, on show at the Lumiere Brothers Centre for Photography in Moscow. It includes previously unseen images taken during the 1950s, a time when Soviet deportations resulted in the exile of tens of thousands of families to forced settlements in the Soviet Union, while thousands more became political prisoners. Here: Village Street, Dzukija, 1969. (Photo by Antanas Sutkus)
More of Sutkus’s images are available to see at the Lumiere Brothers Centre for Photography until the 29 May. Here: Toys in Vilnius, 1974. (Photo by Antanas Sutkus)
Life in Soviet Lithuania
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