Published in RAW Magazine Issue #3

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Published by Random Art Workshop in Hong Kong, 2012

OBSCURA 2.1 exhibition at the ART+FACT Gallery in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Darius Kuzmickas | pinhole 24, ocean

OBSCURA 2.1 - Exhibition of Pinhole Photography at the ART+FACT Gallery, featuring 19 pinhole photographers from around the world.

January 23 - February 15, 2012
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Exploring Photographic Alternatives - exhibition at the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum

Darius Kuzmickas | pinhole 701, tears

Opening Reception: Friday, November 18, 6 - 8 pm.

Exhibition titled "Exploring Photographic Alternatives" (Darius Kuzmickas, Diane Bush & Holly Roberts) at the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum (the Barrick).

4505 S Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154

November 18, 2011 - January 7, 2012

ShotOfTheDay (5) on polanoid.net

Darius Kuzmickas | pinhole-ins 121, smoke signals

"pinhole-ins 121, smoke signals" - ShotOfTheDay (2011.07.22) on polanoid.net 

ShotOfTheDay (4) on polanoid.net

Darius Kuzmickas | pinhole-ins 123, sea

"pinhole-ins 123, sea" - ShotOfTheDay (2011.07.19) on polanoid.net 

ASMP Oregon Members' Group Show at the Pushdot Studio Gallery

kudapola 128, I have forgotten your face..., originally uploaded by kudaphoto.

Opening reception: Friday, February 4th, 2011

For Love, Not Money: ASMP Oregon Members' Group Show at the Pushdot Studio Gallery. My photograph "kudapola 128, I have forgotten your face... " will be on display.

2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 104 | Portland, OR 97202

February 4 - March 25, 2011

"Lo-fi"ography exhibition at the Gallery 360

Darius Kuzmickas | pinhole 181-182-183, ocean

Opening reception: Friday, February 4th, 2011

The "Lo-fi"ography" exhibition at the Gallery 360 highlights the expanding vintage and alternative photographic movements and imagery.

111 West 9th Street | Vancouver, WA 98660

February 2-27, 2011

Self Image - 4th annual juried competition, Plates to Pixels Gallery

Darius Kuzmickas | Camera Obscura: Outside In(n), 15

"Self-portraits fascinate me. As a commercial portrait photographer and a fine art photography gallerist, looking at any type of fine art portrait puts me in a unique position to look through both sets of photography eyes. But self-portraiture takes both of my photography backgrounds and adds an element of awe, surprise and wonder, because I don’t think I could ever, ever make one.

Creating a self-portrait is as daunting to me as someone giving me a bolt of white lace and telling me to make a wedding dress. I know a gorgeous one when I see it, but conceptualizing my own version lies just out of reach..."

- Jennifer Schwartz, Juror

Online exhibition at the Plates to Pixels Gallery.

Exhibition of Pinhole Photography at the Brian Marki Fine Art Gallery

Darius Kuzmickas | pinhole 514, sand fortress

Opening: Sunday, April 25th

Exhibition of Pinhole Photography at the Brian Marki Fine Art Gallery.

2236 NE Broadway | Portland, OR 97232

December 2, 2010 - January 29, 2011

LT PINHOLE Photography exhibition at the KievFotoCom 2010

Darius Kuzmickas | pinhole 386, ghost


LT PINHOLE Photography exhibition at the 5th International Festival of Photography KievFotoCom 2010 in Kiev, Ukraine.

Photographers represented include Arūnas KULIKAUSKAS, Darius KUZMICKAS, Alfredas MARUŠKA, Giedrius PETRAUSKAS, Jurgita REMEIKYTĖ, Petras SAULĖNAS, Gytis SKUDŽINSKAS, Gintautas TRIMAKAS and Vytautas RAZMA.

The exhibition was organized by Kultūros Meniu / Culture Menu.

November 20-30, 2010
Kiev, Ukraine

ShotOfTheDay (2) on polanoid.net

April 22, 2010...

Darius Kuzmickas | pinhole-ins 93, spring

"pinhole-ins 93, spring" - ShotOfTheDay on polanoid.net.

Exhibition of pinhole photography at the RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco

Darius Kuzmickas | pinhole 212, ocean

2010 3rd Annual Juried Pinhole Show at the Rayko Photo Center

428 Third Street | San Francisco, CA 94107

Opening: Sunday, April 25th

LT PINHOLE Photography exhibition at the Antanas Mončys Museum, Palanga, Lithuania

Darius Kuzmickas | pinhole 417

Opening January 16, 2010...

LT PINHOLE Photography - the new exhibition at the Antanas Mončys Museum in Palanga, Lithuania. It is the first major retrospective by Lithuanian born photographers featuring a selection of color and black and white photographs taken using the pinhole photography technique.

Photographers to be represented include Vaidotas AUKŠTAITIS, Žilvinas GLUŠINSKAS, Mindaugas JANUŠAITIS, Aistė JUCYTĖ, Oksana JUDAKOVA, Deividas JUODGUDIS, Juozas KALNIUS, Evelina KERPAITĖ, Arūnas KULIKAUSKAS, Darius KUZMICKAS, Alfredas MARUŠKA, Vladislav NOVICKI, Jurgis PAŠKEVIČIUS, Giedrius PETRAUSKAS, Vytautas RAZMA, Tomas RAZMUS, Jurgita REMEIKYTĖ, Ieva RUTĖ, Petras SAULĖNAS, Gytis SKUDŽINSKAS, Saulius SLAVINSKAS, Vadim ŠAMKOV, Darius ŠIMKUS, Gintautas TRIMAKAS, Romualdas VAIŠVILA, Arturas VALIAUGA and Adrijus VEGYS.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a 104-page, hard-cover, fully-illustrated book designed by Gytis Skudžinskas and published by Kultūros Meniu.

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Jackpot

"Jackpot" image from "After Glow" series was published in October issue of 944 magazine. Image was captured with 4x5 pinhole camera.

www.kudaphoto.com

Kaunas Photo 09 Recycled

Outside In(n), 33

"Kaunas Photo 09 Recycled" - photography festival in Kaunas, Lithuania.

September 2-4, 2009

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SAM Gallery

Select prints are now available at SAM Gallery, Seattle, WA.

AFTER GLOW at PhotoBistro Gallery

"After Glow" series prints are now available through PhotoBistro Gallery, which is part of photo-eye.

After glow, 14

Darius Kuzmickas - Camera Obscura: Modern Primitivism

New exhibition at Vilnius Photography Gallery, Stikliu g. 4, Vilnius, Lithuania

2008.05.22 - 2008.06.15

"The apparatus is deceivingly simple: a carved out pinpoint, a thin rayof filtered light, a darkened room and a blank surface upon which an image is reborn in softfocus. The light brushes itself in faint, wispy strokes across the page, the way memory might capture a scene, blurring its edges a bit in translation. Pinhole photography (or the camera obscura) is a heavily intuitive process concerned more with creating a mood than delivering an image wrapped in the trappings of reality. Simple in theory, the process, predating modern photography, is quite tricky. What isn't left to luck is owed to plenty of practice, precision and experimentation, all of which are evident in photographer Darius Kuzmickas' ethereal collections.

Viewing Kuzmickas' work is akin to entering a strange, otherworldly universe, equal parts foreign and familiar. In a series taken at Utah's Great Salt Lake, precariously upright pillars emerge from what could be construed as either dry desert lakebeds or glacial, snowcovered tundra. The ambiguity sets the viewers' imagination free to impart its own story, invent its own memory. The swirls of darkened background clouds impart a feeling of impenetrable cold, which, combined with the barren mood evoked by the crumbly salt pillars, resembles something out of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". Chillingly apocalyptic, and yet, at the same time, each piece exudes the lingering warmth of recent discovery and fresh, new vision, allowing the mood to linger far longer than the specific details, settling deep within the mind's landscape as memory does; reflective and misty; abstract and obscured."

Excerpts from essay by Kelle Schillaci

Also, selections from "After Glow", a new series of pinhole photographs, that capture the eerie flip-side of daylight in the Neon Homeland. In these "lensless" pictures the glitz and glam of Las Vegas Strip give way to a dream-like reality suffused with the light and emotional timbre of a solar eclipse.

 

MARKERS - public art project for the City of Las Vegas

Just completed public art project called MARKERS for City of Las Vegas Arts Commission. This installation was commissioned under the City's "Percent for the Arts" ordinance, which supports the integration of original, site specific artwork into City capital construction projects. I worked with the Department of Leisure Services, the architectural firm of Lucchesi Galati Architects, Inc. and the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Works to design and create art feature for the new Centennial Hills Community Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.

MARKERS is a series of eight, 8-foot backlit glass columns featuring photographic imagery taken of surrounding desert landscape and the Las Vegas cityscape to convey the complexity and beauty found in Las Vegas area. A pinhole camera was used for half of the abstracted images, which were then transferred onto film an laminated between two layers of glass.

These unique art pieces were created specifically for the Centennial Hills Community Center, are located down the interior arcade that spans the length of the center's main building.

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PDN Photo Annual 2008 Winner!

PDN's Photo Annual 2008 Winner - kudaphoto.com

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