Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 206-2-39

Title

Peace and Wars

Date(s)

2004

Description Level

Series

Context

Name of creator(s)

Open Society Archives at Central European University

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

The exhibition stages the work of Normantas Paulius, a Lithuanian born photographer, traveller and researcher from Hungary. The approximately 190 photos taken over 20 years in 10 countries of the Far East will be exhibited in respect for Robert Capa.

Scope and Content (Narrative)

Kathmandu, Phnom Penh, New Delhi, Paris and Nida- just a few of those cities where over 30 personal exhibitions of Normantas Paulius were organized in a quarter of a century while taking part in more than 30 exhibitions mostly in Southeastern Asia and publishing 7 photo albums.
Photographer Paulius Normantas does everything by himself, much of it in reverse. After his first exhibits, at a time when the Lithuanian school of photography had achieved sufficient renown both at home and throughout Eastern Europe, Normantas leaves Lithuania and embarks on quarter century of incessant journeys ever deeper into the East: from the furthest reaches of Russia to the peaks of the Himalayas and the jungles of Cambodia. When private business ventures are sprouting in the crumbling USSR, Normantas, a graduate in economics, clutches his camera even more firmly and flees from the capitalist civilization returning to Eastern Europe. Lithuania regains its independence, but Normantas remains a citizen of two countries-his native Lithuania and Hungary, where his two children reside. By Skirmantas Valiulis

The photos of this exhibition were published in a new photo album that was presented at the opening.

Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

Not Restricted

Languages

English, Hungarian