Aiste Stancikaite

7 days of driving: Romania.

Wikipedia: "Lagos  is one of the most visited cities in the Algarve and Portugal, due to its variety of tourist-friendly beaches, bars, restaurants, and hotels, renowned for its vibrant summer nightlife and parties. In 2012, travel website  TripAdvisor , classified Lagos as the number 1 travel destination, on a list of "15 destinations on the rise" worldwide."  

Bishkek (KG) to Dushanbe (TG)

Wikipedia: "Palanga  is a seaside  resort town  in western  Lithuania , on the shore of the  Baltic Sea . It is the busiest summer resort in Lithuania and has beaches of sand (18 km long and up to 300 m wide) and sand  dunes . In the summer, a multitude of tourists stay on Palanga, both for its beaches and to enjoy the maritime atmosphere. There is a carnival centered on  Jonas Basanavicius  Street, which is a pedestrian only thoroughfare during the high season. There are dozens of restaurants, bars, rides, and other forms of entertainment."

A quiet trip through an Asian metropolis with a a multi-million population. It is all about people, yet not a single person is ever present. A dehumanized mise-en-scene, a mixture of ultra-modern minimalism and unexpected harmony in form and silence that sometimes can be found in bare chaos. A picture frame becomes an abstract puzzle, just like playing LEGO - if you take one part away, the rest might collapse. The question though is if the form metaphorically reflects the actual content - the lives and relationships of those behind the walls. What would Le Corbusier say?

The project 'Holidays in Morocco'' is a response to over saturated image world. Imagery that we produce and consumer every day often gets misinterpreted, raise confusion and blur the line between what is real and what's made up. Is photography still the most accurate representational medium; is still evidence of reality? Project 'Holidays in Morocco' reflects on these questions by reducing the visual side of photography down to its the barest minimum. The project is still a book of images, both in very literal and metaphorical sense - being actual scanned negatives of three 35mm Ilford films that failed to record the 'reality*', they now become spaces for everyone to project their own images. Using failure as an advantage, project 'Holidays in Morocco' examines and questions both the medium of photography, and the general importance and legitimacy of the visual. * Whilst traveling in Morocco, have been taking pictures on 35mm film camera. Exposed 4 films but, after developing them, found 3 of them to be completely black. Decided to scan every single black negative and try to remember each shot, one by one, and re-create the image using text. This resulted in a book - some negatives are...