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Latvia, 1984 - by Inta Ruka (1958), Latvian

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Inta Ruka

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Inta Ruka

Born in 1958 in Riga, Latvia, Inta Ruka grew up with her mother in a rented apartment in modest circumstances and trained as a seamstress. Given a camera as a graduation present by her mother, she has devoted herself to photography ever since. With the camera her shyness disappeared. She joined the photo group Ogre and learned the trade.

The creative development of lnta Ruka in the l98Os is connected with the young generation that was defining itself in the photography of this

decade - 'the'new wave photo people"l characterized by turning to the image system based on documentary material. The documentary as "non- manipulated"'? realism o"uncompromising realism"3 opened new ways of development for photography that turned away from the principles of image making and aesthetics cultivated in the Latvian photographic art during the previous decades.

For more than two decades, Inta Ruka has photographed the people of Latvia – from 1984 to 2000, primarily in the rural area of Balvi ("My Country People") and, later on, increasingly in the capital of Riga. In the series "People I happened to meet", she strikes up conversations with unknown people in order to ask them for a portrait. By contrast, in "Amalias Street 5", she is focusing on the inhabitants of a certain ensemble of apartments in Riga. Off the beaten track of the picturesque Old Town, with its extensive restoration, she provides an undisguised view on the current state of flux in Latvia since its integration into the European Union.