a solitary photographer
I like to shoot candidly and unobtrusively. The viewer should not feel my presence in the photos I take.
I tend to isolate my subjects and try to reduce the amount of distracting details within a frame.
I am a street photographer from Vilnius, Lithuania.
My main profession is software engineering, but photography has been my hobby for a long time as I love documenting our vacations, but for most of the time my camera was gathering dust.
Then in 2018 I realized that many of my vacation photos were about people and their everyday life - that’s how I found out my passion for street photography. Since then I switched to a more lightweight camera and now I have it with me all the time. I try not to restrict myself when on the streets and shoot everything that catches my eyes: reflections, shadows, silhouettes, portraits, etc. But I prefer to isolate my subjects as well as blend in, doing only unobtrusive and candid photography which makes every shot as natural as possible.
Also, the majority of my photos are in black & white as I think that colours are unnecessary for what I want to say with each of my shots. Most of my inspiration comes from foreign photographers because street photography is not very popular in Lithuania, but if I had to pick one famous Lithuanian photographer, it would be Antanas Sutkus. All in all, wandering the streets with a camera is like a meditation for me that is why I love doing it alone.
All in all, wandering the streets with a camera is like a meditation for me that is why I love doing it alone.
ProgresFestival – Winner of Series Street category Milano, October 2022
Mindaugas Vasiliauskas
Mindaugas works in this series coherently and interestingly with the human scale concerning the urban landscape, reflecting inevitable loneliness in contrast. Well made sequence.
Ximena Echague
When I saw this year’s theme for ProgresFestival it came to me naturally that I should submit some of my photos. I like to isolate people in my shots who are lost in their minds and surrounded by urban spaces. I do not necessarily think that they are lonely, but prefer the company of their own mind as a short break from a busy and noisy everyday life. This is why my submitted series is called “My Mind - My Company”.
