Ričardas Dailidė. Photography

R. Dailidė observes everyday life through the lens and documents real events, avoiding artistic staging or special directing. The author’s photographs reveal both simple everyday moments and significant turning points marking transformations in society. Although the geography is wide, the works are united by a sincere interest in people and the environment, a desire to convey the reality of life as accurately as possible, unembellished by excessive artistic means.

This exhibition reveals the value of R. Dailidė’s reportage style, inviting viewers to reflect on how photography can preserve living testimonies of societal change. The author’s ability to peer into everyday life turns his works not only into a visual archive but also into a living narrative about the time period that is constantly changing.

Ričardas Dailidė (born in 1937) is known to many as an active creator, a man of action, a public-spirited person. Having tried the field of performing arts at the beginning of his creative path, he eventually chose photography and has remained faithful to it to this day.

Although he could devote only his spare time to photography after his main professional activity, during more than 5 decades of his creative activity, R. Dailidė created memorable photographic cycles: “Time Passes through the City”, “Shrove Tuesday in Kurtuvėnai”, “Lost Labyrinths of Time”, “Chronicle of Rebirth of Lithuania”, “Colleagues”, “Life in Jazz”, “Window to Cuba”, etc. He has held several dozens of solo exhibitions, participated in numerous group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad, and has won over 30 various awards. R. Dailidė was among the authors introduced at the Lithuanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011 in Darius Mikšys’ project “Behind the White Curtain”.