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[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”4″ bottom_padding=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”4″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ content_parallax=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”211151″][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image media=”156504″ media_width_percent=”100″ alignment=”right” css_animation=”alpha-anim” animation_delay=”400″ uncode_shortcode_id=”121374″][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”0″ position_horizontal=”left” gutter_size=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”2\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”499996″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ text_transform=”uppercase” separator=”under” sub_reduced=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”143174″ subheading=”fine art & documentary photographer”]Andrius Ma\u017eeika[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”403044″]Andrius was born in Lithuania in 1986. Photography for him is first and foremost a way of editing the reality around him\u2014discovering, emphasising or discarding.<\/p>\n

The documentary approach he employs, puts pressure on the essential photographic element of time<\/em> thus making the end results even more unpredictable. Herein lies the central \u201cconflict\u201d of not only photography\u2014linear planning vs spontaneity, head vs heart, zen vs motorcycle maintenance, left vs right hemisphere\u2014but of humanity as well. Photography to Andrius is the marriage of these two contradictory ways of perceiving the reality around us.<\/p>\n

One of the key themes recurring in Andrius\u2019 work is figurativeness. The choice of black and white here is consequential as Andrius finds that it emphasises the shapes and strips away the non-essentials. Shooting monochrome for him is part choice part necessity as he is slightly colour-blind.<\/p>\n

More recently, women and female nudes have found themselves in Andrius\u2019 viewfinder. Here he uses the shapes of their bodies to invert the usual social roles that are assigned to them. Emphasising that which is generally not.<\/p>\n

As his influences Andrius cites Robert Mapplethorpe, Vitas Luckus as well as Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado.<\/p>\n

He is currently based in Vilnius, Lithuania.<\/p>\n

Andrius is a co-founder and director of Story Smugglers<\/a> \u2013 an NGO focused on telling stories from the fringes.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”168230″]Exhibitions[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”270929″]2024
\n– Solo exhibition \u201cIr audr\u0105, ir giedr\u0105<\/a>\u201d at Addere Care in Trakai, Lithuania.<\/p>\n

2022
\n– Solo exhibition \u201cFewa lake\u201d at Traku Voke manor house in Trak\u0173 Vok\u0117, Lithuania.<\/p>\n

– Solo exhibition \u201cFewa lake\u201d at Bir\u0161tonas cultural centre in Bir\u0161tonas, Lithuania.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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