 Umeå and Riga unite in a photo exhibition
The internationally renowned photographer from Latvia, Inta Ruka, will visit Västerbottens Museum. During her stay she will hold a lecture entitled To reveal people to the world — and the world in people in conjunction with the seminar Sune Jonsson and documentary photography, which will take place 26-27 November. Afterwards she will exhibit a selection of her photographs in the Museum´s Sune Jonsson Room.
Inta Ruka, born 1958 in Riga, began her career at the end of the 70s as a photographer. She is now one of Latvia´s most famous photographers and in 1999 she made a name for herself on the international scene with the exhibition My Country People. In this exhibition she portrayed people and their lives in her home district Balvi, which is situated in the rural area of eastern Latvia. Ms Ruka worked with these photographs from 1983 to 2000. Her most recent extensive exhibition, Amalia Street 5a, is a photographic documentary made during the period 2004 to 2008 about the lives of people who lived in a block of flats on the outskirts of Riga were documented Inta Ruka´s and Sune Jonsson´s photographs have been shown together once before in the exhibition In the face of history, European Photographers in the 20th century at the Barbican Centre, London in 2006 and now they will be shown together again in an exhibition in the Sune Jonsson Room. Ms Ruka will show photographs from the exhibitions My Country People and Amalia Street 5a. The exhibition will be opened in connection with the seminar on 26 November and will be open to the public until and including 17 January. |
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