Museum stories: Alfrēds Grāvers (1877–1954)
Explore the collection of the Latvian Museum of Photography.
Museum stories: Kārlis Lakše (1892-1949)
The story of photographer Kārlis Lakše and his wife Olga in portraits.
Sensation: The Flash Provokes Reactions
Why does the flash stir up so much unease?
10 minutes with Stig Stasig
A book about Maskatchka area in Riga in the early 1990s has been released.
Giving thanks to the past. Interview with Zane Onckule and Sophie Thun
Exhibition-laboratory for research of Zenta Dzividzinska’s photographic heritage.
Interview with Marc Mouarkech
Photography as a means to preserve the history of the Arab region.
The Family of Man: The Photography Exhibition that Everybody Loves to Hate
The exhibition that remains highly contested among historians and critics of photography to this day.
The Myth of Straight Photography: Sharp Focus as a Universal Language
What kind of photography is “straight,” and why it was supposed to be so universal?
Underexposed Photographers: Life Magazine and Photojournalists’ Social Status in the 1950s
The magazine that changed the world of photography.
Vivian Maier – Still Missing
Recent movie has reawakened the discussion around Vivian Maier – the nanny/photographer from Chicago discovered a couple of years ago.
The subjective documentality of Egons Spuris
National museum hosts a major retrospective of one of the greatest Latvian photographers.