Linas Vaitonis

My name is Linas Vaitonis. I was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania. The city is lively, cozy and relaxed. I'm lucky to live in its medieval old town which is very beautiful and inspiring. It has a huge influence on my work and who I am.

I certainly don’t have the classical art school background because technically I’m an ecologist. Since I’ve got my master’s degree from Vilnius university, I have been working with various environmental projects, nature sciences laboratories and ecology consulting companies. I also worked as an editor for several years right after I finished high school. I started taking pictures just for fun. When I was twenty, I took my mother’s Nikon and started to shoot. I took pictures of literally everything. It was an obsession.

I try to take visually exceptional pictures and I don’t want to make any big statement by the way I present them. These stories are somewhere between the odd and the ordinary. Dream-like images revolve around the mystery and the secret. Continuous duality expressed through light, composition, colour, character and the truth about fiction and manipulation leads to inventions and playfulness. However, the pictures still refer to a world that real people inhabit.

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Bachelor of Biology Sciences at Vilnius Pedagogical University
Sep '07 - Jul '11

Master of Ecology Sciences at Vilnius University
Sep '12 - Jul '14

Solo Exhibition at Raketa Club (Vilnius, Lithuania)
1st Oct '12 - 1st Nov '12

Group Exhibition at The Brick Lane Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
10th May '16 - 23rd May '16