What can you learn about a person from a single photograph? If it shows not only a face, but also an activity that is important to them – does that become a story? Thirty portraits of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) students from different countries are presented in a new photography exhibition that reveals their personalities, daily routines, personal interests, and cultural backgrounds.
“This exhibition is like a creative exercise, where the most important element is the result of collaboration between the photographer and the person being photographed, which is the image,” says Donatas Stankevičius, head of the KTU Photo Studio.
The students who took part in the photoshoot were captured in settings related to their hobbies or activities – each chose how they wanted to be represented. As a result, the exhibition features portraits taken not only in libraries, classrooms, and laboratories but also in kitchens, on basketball courts, and even at the Lithuanian Aviation Museum next to aircraft.
“An active person is always more interesting, so we focused on those who showed initiative,” says Stankevičius.
