Robertas Misiukonis

Robertas Misiukonis – the photo artist of Kaunas. He has been a member of Lithuanian Union of Art Photographers since 1981. In 1984 he graduated from KPI electrical engineering faculty. In 1976 he set up a club KPI-FOTO. He had been a chairman of the board till 1984, and since 1986 – an art director of the club. He had been a director of a studio KTU-FOTO since 1991 till 2014. He has been working as a photography teacher in Kaunas School of Applied Arts since 2014, and he is a tutor of the project of creative workshops ‘‘Už rėmų‘‘. During the project implementation the photo artist has been conducting creative workshops, and famous photographer‘s have been participating in the meetings.

The creation work of Robertas Misiukonis has many links with directing photography, he also creates by using a method of analogical photography. In the series of photography’’ “FOR HER OR THE LIFE MAELSTROMS’’ Robertas Misiukonis presents photographs that have been created by using a technique of cyanotype. This is especially uncommon technique of photography when photos, that are printed by using hands, get blue shade.

In every photograph artist portrays still another fragment, a portrait of woman or man is often pictured, and in some photographs images, that are comprised from different details, are a bit abstract. Details of human body are very significant in the photographs: expressive facial lines, graceful body shape. This series of photographs of Robertas Misiukonis is like a diary of two people which consists of everyday fragments.

The photo artist created series ’’FOR HER OR THE LIFE MAELSTROMS’’ together with an author of the project Gintarė Žaltauskaitė. The exhibition of photography had been presented in Kaunas (KTU), Šiauliai, Tauragė, Klaipėda, Birštonas, Kėdainiai. The project ’’Jai arba gyvenimo verpetas’’ had already been implemented in other name and without a co-author in Panevėžys. About creation work of the photo artist is written in press, also there are published many catalogues that are connected with his activity.