Identity politics: five young Latvian photographers on a quest | World news | The Guardian
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For Latvia, a small country with a complicated past, a search for identity has persisted since the breakup of the Soviet Union 24 years ago.
That quest runs through the work of a number of young Latvian photographers today. Ignoring the trend for highly manipulated digital imagery, they are united by what could be called “local poetics” – a lyrical and dreamy tone present in Latvian art for decades.
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