Alnis Stakle

Recurring themes in Latvian photographer Alnis Stakle’s work are visual representation of collective and private trauma, loss, memories and the materiality of the medium of photography. Straddling the genres of documentary and conceptual photography he explores  how socio-political ideas can be examined through both fact and fiction as well as the interplay of collective and subjective experience.

Since 1998, his works has been exhibited widely, including solo & group exhibitions at the Latvian Museum of Photography, Latvian National Museum of Art, Modern Art Oxford, Art Center ‘Winzavod’ in Moscow, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR in Brussells. Alnis Stakle works are represented in private and public collections such as Yale University Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, New Haven, Rijksmuseum Library, Amsterdam, Latvia Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, Latvian Photography Museum, Mark Rothko Art Center in Daugavpils (LV), The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection, RIBA British Architectural Library, Thessalonica Museum of Photography.