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Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
About Andrejs Grants
- Andrejs Grants (born March 7, 1955 in Riga) is a Latvian photographer and teacher.
- He studied at the Latvian State University (1973–78), worked in the “Ogre” photo studio (1978–1988).
- From 1979 he is a teacher at the House of Technical Innovation in Riga, where he gained his reputation as an influential photography teacher of many Latvian contemporary photographers, film-makers and artists, such as Ritums Ivanovs, Arnis Balcus and Gints Berzins.
- At "Ogre" photo studio he formed an informal group "A" with photographers Inta Ruka, Valts Kleins and Gvido Kajons.
- Having influences by documentary photographers, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, group "A" used a reportage style to document everyday life of Soviet Latvia, very often creating photographs full of criticism.
- Andrejs Grants gained international recognition by collaborating with group "A" ideological leader Egons Spuris' widow Inta Ruka.
- Their project "Latvia: Changing and Unchanging Reality" has been shown internationally.
- Similar to Ruka's work, Andrejs Grants' main theme are the people in Latvia.
- His photographs record a variety of Latvian people of different social levels, professions, nationalities, generations, people in their usual surroundings – in the city or countryside, at work or at home, in festivities or alone.
- In 2002 a monography "Andrejs Grants" was released by Neputns with a selection of his best work.
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