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Mednarodna fotografska razstava | International Photographic Exhibition 1. september — 13. november 2005 1st September — 13th November 2005 |
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from "Marshland" |
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Despite its small size, Latvia may be regarded as one of the major “peat powers” in the world. Bogs make up 10.7 % of the area of the country and contain 0.6 % of the global peat resources. Latvia ranks 8th in the world in terms of per capita peat production.
Seda Bog in the North Eastern part of Latvia is where the country’s biggest peat mining company is located. The company - and a workers’ town, Seda - was established in 1952. The town still preserves eloquent signs of the inflated style of “shock work” construction projects of the Communist era. The town consists of Stalinist-style apartment houses, wide streets with avenues of birch trees and poplars, statues and monuments in the style of socialist realism that contrast with the piles of rusting machines and other scrap on the outskirts of town. Seda Bog is also criss-crossed by the longest narrow-gauge railway network in the Baltic countries, used for transporting peat out of the bog.
It is a remote and, in a sense, isolated place. Almost all the workers are former immigrants from Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Lithuania and other former Soviet Republics, and their descendants. The vast majority of the multi-ethnic population of Seda are non-citizens, and their language of communication is Russian.
Seda is a unique society in the middle of the bog. It is a frozen society still having the same lifestyle, using the same technologies and occupying the same physical environment as during the Soviet times. In Seda one gets a feeling that people there have never lived in the real, present-day Latvia. Seda is a microcosm of the non-existant Soviet Union in the middle of Europe. One gets a feeling there that time has stopped.
Was born in 1975 in Cesis, Latvia. In 1995 he went to Photography School in Riga and six years later to Faculty of biology (University of Latvia). Since 2004 he visits Riga Red Cross medicine college. He participated at different courses in Latvia, Denmark and Israel. He works as a freelance photographer, journalist and filmmaker. Exhibitions (selection): |
Works and Artists
Hynek ALT
Brass ART
Rudi BENÉTIK
Erika BIALOWONS
Elija BOßLER
Bojan BRECELJ
Barbara CAVENG
Guan CE
Chien – Chi CHANG
Mario CRAVO NETO
Božidar DOLENC
Zijah GAFIĆ
Kaspars GOBA
Jan GRARUP
Tomaž GREGORIČ
Christoph GRILL
Dejan HABICHT
Arne HODALIČ
Jasna HRIBERNIK
Tomo JESENIČNIK
Manca JUVAN
Kurt KAINDL
Stojan KERBLER
Alojz KRIVOGRAD ml.
Tanja LAŽETIĆ
Zmago LENÁRDIČ
Branko LENART
Darko LESJAK
Erich LESSING
Chara LEWIS
Martin LIEBSCHER
Tomaž LUNDER
Maria MAIER
Janez MARENČIČ
Brigitte Maria MAYER
Steve McCURRY
Emil MEMON
Boris MIKHAILOV
Mare MILIN
Dario MITIDIERI
Dragiša MODRINJAK
Kristin MOJSIEWICZ
Inge MORATH
Zhang MUCHAO
Valentin OMAN
Andrej OSTERMAN
Saša PETEJAN
Borut PETERLIN
Anneké PETTICAN
Veno PILON
Herman PIVK
Godfrey REGGIO
Irina RUPPERT
Klavdij SLUBAN
Hermann STAMM
Jože SUHADOLNIK
Edi ŠELHAUS
Annelies ŠTRBA
Ingo TAUBHORN
Amos TAYLOR
Aleksandra VAJD
Eric VAN HOVE
Sašo VRABIČ
Huiqin WANG
Veronika ZAPLETALOVA
Tobias ZIELONY
Francesco ZIZOLA
Martin ZWITTER
Joco ŽNIDARŠIČ