The Place Where I am Not book launch
Exciting news – after a busy weekend of putting the final touches, The Place Where I am Not book is finally ready! The Place Where I am Not by Tina Remiz | Make Your Own Book It is self-published via Blurb, has 40 pages with more than 30 photographs and can be viewed and purchased … Read more
The endframe
One of the biggest challenges of working on a personal project is knowing where to stop. Having no set deadline and no restrictions on the number of images to included into the final edit, photographers often have to trust their instinct, waiting for the feeling that the story is told. Being heavily involved with the … Read more
When the nights are short…
Ligo is celebrated on the 23rd and 24th of June, honoring the longest two days of the year, separated by mere few hours of twilight. Traditionally marked with mass celebrations, Ligo is the night when every citizen yearns to reunite with the nature, many believers happily fall into paganism and few Russians feel more Latvian … Read more
Document 2011, the War on Want Award
My work from The Place Where I am Not project is among five projects shortlisted for the Document 2011, the War on Want Photographic Award and will be displayed is HOST gallery as a part of the Summershow from 08 July until 12 August. More information to follow.
The Place Where I am Not
The Place Where I am Not is an ongoing project, in which I am exploring the dramatic changes that took place in my home country in the past two years. After joining the European Union in 2004 Latvia had the fastest developing economy in Europe. However, heavily hit by the recession in 2008, Latvia … Read more
Rīta tramvajs…
Rīta tramvajs tik neizbēgams Kā pirmdienas darbs vai brīvdienu slinkums Tur pietiek vietas visiem Neatkarīgi no tā Kāds ir patiesais tilpums Vīrietis konduktors Un sieviete destruktors Viņi tūlīt kausies Bet pagaidām bļaustās Tu savelc turziņā ausis Un klausies Hospitāļu iela – Par Kiosku Commuting is an experience that defines you as belonging to a certain … Read more
Simtlatnieki
Following the recent economic decline, in summer 2010 Latvian government introduced a new social care program. People who have been registered as unemployed for six months and can no longer claim benefits are now offered to work full-time, doing low qualified work for a monthly scholarship of LVL100 (apr. £120) Those workers are widely known … Read more
The Place Where I am Not… but Could Be
I sometimes try to imagine what would my life be like if two-and-a-half years ago I did not pack a suitcase and leave for the UK. For the preceding 18 years I had plans and dreams, many of which my peers are now living. It is fair to admit that most of the aspirations were … Read more
N.
I went to school with five girls named Anastasia, yet there was only one whom the name suited. There was a certain mystery about her: the girl spent summer holidays in mountains and came to the Christmas celebration party dressed as a Snow White. She could read faster than others, count more precisely, was very … Read more
School – the place where I am not and do not want to be
I was never sentimental about leaving school. Having had enough of it in the long 12 years of education, I was eager to enter a new stage of my life and become an adult. I always found the school system of education wrong in its roots. Hundreds of kids from various backgrounds are gathered together, … Read more
