Last Requiem

• Prize
  Silver in Architecture/Cityscapes
• Photographer
  Virgilijus Usinavicius

Distant faint sound of footsteps in the snow, river purling over it’s frozen banks and yet the silence of lonesome standing becomes overwhelming. Lingering over faded memories they are playing their last song, last requiem. Come and listen. An art piece by Samvel Gandzumian of old, no longer in use pianos. Installation in “Uzupio Inkubatorius" open art gallery, Vilnius. Pictures taken using Arca swiss, Bronica, Hasselblad cameras on Ilford b&w film.

Virgilijus Usinavicius-Augulis is a Lithuanian photographer with extensive experience in photojournalism as well as commercial and fine art photography. He specializes in both analogue and digital photographic techniques with a strong preference for the former. In his artistic practice, the author is guided by the traditional fine-art photography criteria to create picturesque, painterly pictures as if influenced by the Pictorialists. V. Usinavicius-Augulis's recent works have been presented in both group and solo exhibitions and have been awarded international and national prizes.