Festival sponsor:
Festival Partners:
Noor Images
Thomson Reuters
At night slide show you will see:
“HOME WORK” – the program for young photographers. The jury start work on it.
We have 39 young photographers and 500 pictures.
Festival “Circle of Life” we have 195 photo stories!
The results of all contest will be announced at Photo Weekend at Vilnius on November 19.
The “HOME WORK”winner will get Nikon COOLPIX P300.
Reuters is One of the Partner of Vilnius Photo Festival “Circle of Life”.
WHEN I GROW UP by ANNA LAURINAVICHYUTE
About Photographer:
Born in small town in Moscow region, Pushchino, on 4th
of June
1988. In 2005, entered the Philological faculty of the Moscow
State University. In 2008/2009, took part in an exchange pro-
gram and went to Berlin, living there for 6 months. In 2009/2010
studied in the Photography School «Izvestia» in Moscow. In Juli
2010 took part in the final of «Young Russian Photographers»
contest. In June 2010, finished studies at Moscow State Univer-
sity and moved to Saint Petersburg.
About photostory:
This is a story about the only son of a milkmaid and a shep-
herd who live in a small village in a rural part of Russia. The
boy is fascinated by everything that concerns military style:
in his opinion, a real man must be a brutal, strong soldier. He
does everything he can to look like that, like a hero should. He
proudly tries on a badge – the symbol of Russian aviation. He is
still a little boy, he draws princesses, but he knows very well,
what he would like to be when he grows up.
GORELOVKA by OLYA IVANOVA
About photographer:
Born in 1981 in Moscow, Russia. Received BA in philology,
worked as journalist and copywriter. Photographer since 2006
Photos for magazines, books and charitable funds.
Group exhibitions
Open Image #3. Rodchenko Art School. Photobiennale-2010.
Moscow, Russia. 2010 / InsideOutside: New Images from Russia
Fotoweek DC.Washington, USA. 2009 / Mobilization. Festival o
social art Art-Sobes. Loft-project Etagi. St. Petersburg, Russia.
2009 / Europe and Asia — dialogue of cultures. Metenkov House
Yekaterinburg, Russia. 2009 / Generation to go. Germany, Rus
sia, Belarus , Kazakhstan. 2008
Works are in museums and private collections.
About photostory:
Gorelovka is small village in the middle of the taiga, 800 km
from Novosibirsk. This place is hard to find even with Google
Maps. That’s why it is the best place to escape and hide. Many
years ago Christian Old Believers came here to avoid church
reform. Then “kulaks” (wealthy peasants) chose this place to
escape from Soviet rule. Now many “new world antagonists”
came here to live without passports, internet, identification
numbers and without government.
DAMEZ by NEMANJA JOVANOVIć
About Photographer
Academy of art „BK“ – photography (1999-2003)
Staff member on daily newspapers: Glas javnosti (2003-
2005), Vecernje Novosti (2005-2006), Press (2006-now).
Also published in magazines: Vreme, Playboy Serbia, Glo-
ria, Story, Prestup, Jefimija, Standard, National Geographic
Junior, Svet, Scandal, Revija 92, Evropa, NIN, Bilje i zdravlje,
Ekonomist, Belgrade Diplomatic Catalogue…
About photostory:
After 15 years of living in a ghetto and being a gang-member,
Damijan (who is known as Mack Damez when performing hip-
hop) has returned to Serbia, to find himself with the problem of
re-socializing back into a society quite different from the one he
left. Through various stages in his life, he has found it hard to
abandon the life of the street completely, so he tries his best to
turn it all into hip-hop and to make some money out of it. In his
words, death, drugs, easy-going women, violence etc. follow
him wherever he goes.
SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING by BERTA TILMANTAITĖ
About photographer:
Berta Tilmantaitė. In 2009 Graduated from Vilnius University,
Institute of Journalism. In 2008 studied at the Danish School of
Journalism and Media, is currently studying multimedia journal-
ism at the University of Bolton branch in Beijing, China.
About photostory:
What is synchronized swimming? Sport, dancing, acting ..? Sid-
sel Homann – seven times Danish champion in synchronized
swimming – says that during synchronized swimming, bounda-
ries between land and water vanish. The only difference – free-
dom of movement under the water, where you no longer feel
your body weight and are free to move in different directions.
Breathing is a very important part of synchronized swimming.
Knowing how to breath correctly can increase the time spent
under the water. You dive, come to the surface again, inhale
again and dive again until you no longer realize if you are under
water or above. Sidsel Homann said that synchronized swim-
ming requires extreme concentration, you must be sure of what
you are doing (breathing, muscle tension, arm and leg move-
ments, etc.), so that you can no longer think about that.
If you have this question which, according to her, she is con-
stantly asked, the answer is „yes, we hear the music under the
water via underwater speakers“.
THE DORMITORY by ANNA LAURINAVICHYUTE
About Photographer:
Born in small town in Moscow region, Pushchino, on 4th
of June
1988. In 2005, entered the Philological faculty of the Moscow
State University. In 2008/2009, took part in an exchange pro-
gram and went to Berlin, living there for 6 months. In 2009/2010
studied in the Photography School «Izvestia» in Moscow. In Juli
2010 took part in the final of «Young Russian Photographers»
contest. In June 2010, finished studies at Moscow State Univer-
sity and moved to Saint Petersburg.
About photostory:
The dormitory used to be a place of temporary residence for fac-
tory workers, who got their own flats after some years of work,
but as the factory closed down, all the people who lived there
lost their hope for homes of their own.
Some people have lived there for 30 years already, some have
only recently moved in. There are lots of children in the house,
and they amazed me most of all: 6 to 8 years old girls are run-
ning around in festive-looking but already a bit dirty dresses.
They calmly showed me some syringes lying about in the attic
and in the basement, they are used to such things.
When the girls saw the camera they began to ask me to take
some photos of them posing. Their attitudes and provocative
gazes didn’t look like usual games of little girls. They reflected
the way of thinking and the role models of these children: they
dream of becoming pop-singers or models. The contrast be-
tween those dreams, bright dresses and the reality which they
see every day was the thing I tried to show in this story.
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