A school of sunfish in Monet's lily pond - Limited Edition 1 of 25 Artwork

Algis Kemezys started taking photographs and filming with super 8 in the mid- sixties after deciding it was far more exciting to him than painting or making landsculpture which he did for a number of years.. His fine-art career began in 1979 with the apprenticeship to the doyenne of photography, the late BERENICE ABBOTT, discoverer of EUGENE ATGET and assistant to MAN RAY. He has had his most important retrospective at the Vilnius Art Gallery, Lithuania (1998), and has been awarded three international awards. Currently he has divided his time between Qubec and the U.S., and has traveled to many countries around the globe. Geomancer, Dowser,Rock Sculptor, Gourmet Chef, World Traveller, Cinematographer, Photographer, Director Algis Kemezys started out in the visual arts as a fine art photographer. He has photographed all over the world. His work has been published and exhibited internationally (New York; Chicago; Canada; Greece; Mexico and India). While photographing the island of Crete (Greece) for a book cover in 2002, he became interested in making a documentary about the islands mimetoliths. Drawing on his previous experience in working with video (Ryerson University; as well as an ongoing sideline in video-art pieces) he has finished two successive documentary films, the first of which (Faces of Myth) played in several festivals to good notices, and the second of which (Mimetoliths) was finished in October 2005 and showed with the Untied Nations Mediterranean. Enviromental Film Festival. Ishia Film festival, Italy and Won peoples choice in the Night Gallery Film Festivals.