Photography & Digital Art,TravelJUL 4, 2016

Soon To Be Gone: I Photograph Life Of Disappearing Villages Of Lithuania

My photography project "Soon to be gone" analyses the changes in Lithuanian countryside life. I was working on it from 2014 and it's already my 3rd year in. I am travelling through Lithuania on my motorbike and it's already almost 3000km done, that is why these photo series are now covering a pretty large area of it. I hope in the long run it will cover all of the Lithuania.

Just within the last decade, this continuous migration has caused the population of Lithuania to shrink by almost one-sixth. Towns that have usurped the whole economics and are sucking out young people to the cities, inappropriate lifestyle often adopted by the young rural generation – those who are still here – all this is inexorably changing our country. Just one question inevitably arises: for how long will our forests and valleys be adorned by views of homesteads and villages – places where a totally different understanding of time and closeness still exists? For how long will there still be found places, where an unexpected visitor is met like a close relative and every passer-by, is greeted with a heartfelt ‘hello’?

More info: gone.lt