EARLY WORKS (SIGNED)

Ivars Gravlejs
EARLY WORKS (SIGNED)

Photographs: Ivars Gravlejs

Text: Ivars Gravlejs

Publisher: Mack

144 pages

Year: 2015

ISBN: 978-1-910164-39-6

Price: 30 €

Comments: Softcover, perfect binding 27,6 x 21 cm. Out of print! In very good condition. Signed and dated the year of the publication by Ivars Gravlejs

An eccentric scrapbook documenting Ivars Gravlejs schooldays in Latvia during the 1990s. Aged 11, Gravlejs acquired a camera, soon deployed in unrestrained rebellion against authority – the small state of the school. Gravlejs writes, “I often felt nauseous before going to school because of the humiliation that I faced from my teachers. The only way to survive school was to do something creative - to take pictures and make movies.”

Ivars Gravlejs (b. 1979) is a Latvian photographer who lives and works in Prague. He studied photography at the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague (2000–07). He currently teaches photography in Latvia and the Czech Republic.