Žilvinas Kropas

Litwa – Lithuania

I am an alternative photographer from Lithuania. Since 2017 - a member of the public company „Gabriele's Art Gallery” (Kaunas), as well as, since 2015 - a member of the Board of Paneveżys Photographers' Society. I am an active photographer, I often take part in group exhibitions together with professional artists. I have been creating an artistic photography since 2012. An exclusive feature of my creative work is - taking a photo by using Pinhole, Lumen prints, chlorophyll process and Solargraphy photographic techniques. I consider myself to be an idealist, looking for beauty and harmony everywhere, able to properly appreciate spiritual and cultural values, I have a special intuition, and a very volatile imagination.

Personal exhibitions:
2019 - Illumination of solar scripts. Birżai region museum. 2019 - Illumination of solar scripts. Anykščiai Art Incubator. 2018 - Illumination of solar scripts. Paneveżys Photography gallery.

List of group exhibitions:
2019 - International exhibition. Dusetos cultural centre gallery of art „Horse in photography”.
2018 - International interdisciplinary art project „Hundreds of feelings to Lithuania”.
- international interdisciplinary art project „Visible in Time”. Mirror gallery. United Kingdom.
2017 - International pinhole exhibition in Mexico.
- International pinhole exhibition in Argentina.
2016 - Paneveżys Photographers Society exhibition „Portraits of actors”. 2016 - International pinhole exhibition in Columbia „Movement”. 2016 - Exhibition „Remembering the Future” of Paneveżys Photo Gallery.
- International pinhole photo exhibition in Belarus „Human”.

Articles and publications:
Photographs have been published in international art journals and specialized press in the USA and Mexico...
- Catalogue „Portrait without face”. Publication 2019 - Catalogue „Horse in photography”. Publication - Shots (JAV). Art magazine.
2018 - The Hand (JAV). A Magazine for Reproduction-based Arts. 2018 - The international art magazine BLUR writes about me and my work. 2018 - The article in weekly „Voice of Paneveżys”

About me and my work.
2018 - A critical review of Žilvinas Kropas's photography - Prof. Dr. Remigijus Venckus.
„Šiauliu naujienos”. - Pinhole photograph is published in Mexican periodical press 2016 - Magazine of culture and history Senvage.
Publication:
2016 - My photo is published in the international f / D pinhole book.
„Žilvinas Kropas, pursuing strictly pure alternative photography and his own artistic program, is the person who seeks to reanimate the cult background for art, eliminated in the age of reproduction. He endows photography with what traditionally belongs to fine arts: the original, authenticity, and cultivation of good taste!” - Prof. Dr. Remigijus Venckus (media artist and critic).