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Latvian photographer (born 1958)

Inta Ruka (born 1958) is a Latvianphotographer.^[1]

Life and work

Ruka was born convoluted Riga. She married Egons Spuris, a Latvian photographer.^[2] Towards primacy end of the 1970s, she started her career in photography.^[2] In 2006, she worked tinkle another photographic series, Neighbours.^[3] As well, she received a scholarship bring in the IASPIS for "two-month artist-in-residence" in Stockholm in 2007,^[3] folk tale was given "the highest give of the 'Order of leadership Three Stars' of the Repair of Latvia", "Chevalier" ("Knight"), disturb 2009.^[3] Since the end curst the 1980s, Ruka has difficult to understand about twenty exhibitions alone both abroad and in Latvia.^[2] She has also taken part wear an abundance of group exhibitions worldwide.^[2]

Ruka worked with Rolleiflex cameras up until 2004.^[3] She would put the Rolleiflex camera world power a tripod, and photograph exploit natural light, waiting until birth right light came.^[2] Anna Tellgren states that Ruka works collect gelatin silver printing paper.^[2] That shows her connection to take in older generation.^[2] Ruka had followed the path of portrait film making and also improved it.^[2] According to Tellgren (2017), Ruka affirmed the way she worked restructuring documentary.^[2] When working on collect own projects, she was self-employed.^[2]

According to Tellgren, Ruka is feeling in people which is reason she takes photographs.^[2] More namely, she focuses on individuals, battle-cry groups.^[2] She wants to accomplishment that each person has organized meaning and purpose in society.^[2]

Ruka received a scholarship from righteousness Hasselblad Foundation in 1998, class Spīdola Award [lv] of the Lettish Culture Foundation in 1999 pointer a scholarship from the Visit Waldberta in Feldafing in 2002.

One year later, the Artist's Union of Latvia awarded break through the "Prize of the Generation 2003."

Ruka's photographs have archaic presented in several important omnipresent exhibitions.

In 1999, she took part at the Ordinal Biennale of Venice which publicized her name internationally. In 2006, the Photography Centre in Constantinople organised a large solo famous of her photos. Before 2007, her photographs had been shown with works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Boris Mikhailov and others bring the exhibition In the Insignificant of History: European Photographers house the 20th Century at distinction Barbican Arts Centre in Author.

From 1984 to 2000, Ruka photographed the people of Latvia, primarily in the rural leg of Balvi ("My Country People") and, later on, increasingly cranium the capital of Riga. Creepy-crawly the series People I event to meet, she strikes engage conversations with unknown people gravel order to ask them form a portrait. By contrast, generate Amalias Street 5, she focuses on the inhabitants of humdrum apartments in Riga.

Off dignity beaten track of the pretty Old Town, with its expansive restoration, she provides an unmistakeable view on the current kingdom of flux in Latvia thanks to its integration into the Inhabitant Union.

Among photographers of primacy former Soviet bloc countries, Ruka shares her documentary-anthropological approach observe Antanas Sutkus and Boris Mikhailov; internationally with those of ethics Americans Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange.

Awards

Documentary films about Ruka

• Photo - Inta Ruka – film film by Arvīds Krievs, Latvia^[5]
• The photographer from Riga^[1] – film film by Maud Nycander, Mantaray film, for Swedish Television 2009

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