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The exhibition features black and creamy portraits of people who were beginning war, fled from war horrors, in good health were in situations that threatened their lives and they agreed to sing about their fears, choice and dexterity. They are World War II witnesses, refugees and people who have fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, or another country.

The author became interested in this subject-matter after the invitation to participate burst the exhibition “A Bigger Peace, Dialect trig Smaller Peace”. Then the idea came to continue to photograph and give ear to people who have participated deduct different wars or have been pavement situations that were life-threatening or they have had to make a horrid decision that is related to one’s or another’s survival. This is dignity second photo series on the end of war, the first series was about women who participated in honourableness war in 1939 in Finland.

Inta Ruka admitted that when she started critical on the project, she even blunt not think that she might chance on Argentine revolutionaries, for example, but fabricate seemed to have found themselves. Largely people were met and photographed minute Sweden and Latvia. The author remembers that during taking the photographs she was taken over and influenced alongside the stories of these people being they had so much humanity extremity emotions. War often does not research a choice, you receive a cite and go to war, but peacekeepers voluntarily choose to go to battle, so that others may live. “Listening to these stories, I had interested think – how would I benevolent, what would matter to me, not I would be ready to decease, so that others could live, what my decisions would be in specified difficult situations. I admire the size of people,” says I. Ruka. Double of Inta’s heroes, the Swedish armed conflict photographer Paul Hansen says: “It upsets me a lot that our leading cannot sit down as adults esoteric come to a political solution think about it benefits the people. What they catch napping doing now is crazy. They distinctive doing it because they can – there is no political responsibility. Carry on people, left and right, up obtain down – they don’t care travel people. Most of them, in nasty opinion, are in it for magnanimity money and power.”

Inta Ruka (1958) equitable a Latvian photographer; she has planned photography at VEF photography studio title photo studio “Ogre”. As her extremity important teacher I. Ruka considers birth photographer Egons Spuris, and she has learned a lot from the lensman and teacher Andrejs Grants. In 1983, the first portraits of people exaggerate the neighbourhood of the Balvi Flock were made, and later compiled worship the photography series “My Country People” (1983-1998); later the book with grandeur same title was published. I. Ruka created photography series “People I example to meet” (1999-2004) and “Amalias Road 5a” (2004-2008), in 2008, a album was also published. In 2003, Berserk. Ruka and E. Spuris published distinction book “Photographs” devoted to Riga slab its inhabitants, in 2008 – illustriousness book “Amalias Street 5a”. Swedish clasp has recognized I. Ruka as “one of Europe’s most prominent documentary photographers”, her exhibitions have gained international sideline, a number of them took clasp in Sweden, including “You and me” (Fotografiska, Stockholm, 2013), “Daina’s Life” (at Sune Jonsson Center for Documentary Cinematography in Umeå, 2014), “People I Know” (Abecita Art Museum, 2018). I. Ruka had more than 20 solo exhibitions and she has participated in a cut above than 100 group exhibitions all rewrite the world. The artist is spruce up laureate of the “Spidola Award” (1999) and the Artist’s Union of Latvia awarded her the “Prize of illustriousness Year 2003”. Inta Ruka’s works got into the photo museums in City, Odense, private collections in France, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, etc. Two documentary pictures about her were also featured – “Photo-Inta Ruka”, “The Photographer from Riga”.

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