Once in 2001 my parents bought a new film camera and were talking about it in the kitchen. I was in my room hearing their talk when a strange thought hit my head. As a 13 years old child I was fascinated by the idea that when you push that little button right here right now on the camera, that moment stays in forever in the form of a picture. That seemed like a magic to me. So I stole my parents compact Minolta and spent all that film out. I took the pictures of the snowed bushes, flowers and trees around my house. Since that day photography stayed with me for the rest of my life.
It was my last years at school when I got my first car and occasionally skipped classes to take pictures of landscapes. It is so there are many old houses into those landscapes and camera catches them up. Once a classmate asked to print a large picture and I went to the photo lab. A photographer offered me to buy his old professional Canon T70 as he didn't need it anymore. My parents disagreed to buy it for me because analog technologies were a past for them but I liked analog photography and I needed my own camera, so I did secretly. Most of the collection pictures are taken by this camera, but for some I used my 7D or other digitals as well as post production.
An idea to put all those house photos into one project came out in summer 2015. I found out I have many film photos with houses in them as well as I like stalking architecture photography on internet myself, I supposed there might be more people who would enjoy looking at old Lithuanian houses. I find old houses inspirational not only in their textural aesthetics composing into soft Lithuanian landscape but also their specific subtle energy sinked in their walls telling completely unique story of each of them about what did they see standing in there forever, how did they change through time, who lived there, what were their lives about. I think this conception is important in general historical perspective too because old wooden houses are disappearing unnoticed, some of those I shoot earlier are gone already, soon all of them might be gone.
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