Mindaugas Gabrenas

Mindaugas Gabrenas, born in 1977, Lithuania, is an amateur photographer currently based in New York.
His initial encounter with photography was in late 1990, when his parents gave him a first film camera Zenit. But those days this soviet masterpiece was not so appealing and more resembled a vacuum cleaner rather than a photo camera.
Photography was really discovered in 2008, when Mindaugas Gabrenas lived in Spain. It was then when his first digital camera was acquired and great interest in digital photography was raised.
After the first personal photo exhibition "šFantasma"˜ in 2010, Mindaugas Gabrenas has become increasingly interested in film photography. Currently he focuses on 6×6 black&white photography and works with Hasselblad 501 CM, Kiev 88, Kodak Duaflex II, Holga and homemade cameras. Landscapes, waterscapes, cityscapes, even melancholic dreamscapes - are the main fields of interest.

"My "Dreamscapes" series - is the black and white dream projection in photography or an intention to show in pictures what the unconscious is trying to tell us during the sleep. There is no purity and brightness. Just some frequent flashes of light, strange characters and visual garbage. The melancholic surrealism or the surrealism o...