Lithuanian man takes photos to cope with headaches after an accident
After Ignas Maldziunas was hit by a car, he started having terrible headaches. After many visits to doctors who did not help, he realized that nothing would save him from pain. Except for photographing.
When the photographer was five years old, he was presented with his first camera, an old Soviet-made one. Having built a career in graphic design, Ignas returned to his childhood hobby after the accident. He hitchhiked all over the world and never regretted anything.
"After this long journey, my headaches are gone," the photographer explains.
The pictures of Ignas Maldziunas were taken in real places, but in unreal circumstances. He walks through deserted places from morning to night, illuminating the night twilight with flashes of acidic colors and long exposures.
Most of his photographs were taken in Lithuania and in the USA, especially in Detroit. But it's not so important where exactly it was filmed. The author tries to get into the forgotten corners of the human psyche. Most of the places from the photos of Maldziunas are abandoned and destroyed, abandoned by people in search of more fertile lands. Oddly enough, the photographer feels most comfortable in places abandoned by other people.
"I love solitude, it calms me down," he admits.
These night visions have long calmed his physical suffering, but the inexpressible desire for solitude still lifts the photographer out of bed at night. He calls photography his addiction and has an almost religious reverence for this activity.
Unlike his father's sketches, Maldziunas' photographs were not taken in places of religious worship, but the combination of rays of light and shadows, sometimes gentle, and sometimes bright, reminds of the supernatural and inexplicable. By the way, there used to be a synagogue in the studio where the photographer now works.
Although Ignas Maldziunas owns the technique of digital photography, he always chooses an analogue for his works. The most sacred part of the process is the moment when he returns home and finds himself alone again in a dark room with a huge number of reels of film from distant places.
By the way, the photographer keeps Instagram, where he posts his work.
Keywords: Accident | Pain | Lithuania | Therapy | Injuries | Photographer