To mark the 90th birthday of the outstanding Latvian photographer Gunārs Binde, Latvian National Museum of Art hosts the artist's solo exhibition Binde 100–10. Before the opening of the exhibition an ambitious photo album with the same name is also planned for release.
During his photographer's career spanning 66 years, Gunārs Binde (1933) has received both local and international recognition, his works earning dozens of awards in foreign photography salons. The exhibition will reflect the artist's path towards and through these achievements by creating a metaphorical diary of key events, themes and people, while occasionally interspersing the visual narrative with Binde's own comments about the background of the making of a specific photograph.
Accompanied by specially created scenography, the exhibition brings together the above-mentioned and other canonical photographs with surreal and abstract compositions, experiments and such technical colour alteration processes as posterisation, including a part of the broad collection of self-portraits, photographs on colour film and other never-before-seen or long-forgotten series.