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4 unusual facts about Inta Ruka


Andrejs Grants

Andrejs Grants gained international recognition by collaborating with group "A" ideological leader Egons Spuris' widow Inta Ruka.

At "Ogre" photo studio he formed an informal group "A" with photographers Inta Ruka, Valts Kleins and Gvido Kajons.

Inta Ruka

For more than two decades, Inta Ruka has photographed the people of Latvia – from 1984 to 2000, primarily in the rural area of Balvi ("My Country People") and, later on, increasingly in the capital of Riga.

Until January 2007, her photographs were shown with works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Boris Mikhailov and others in the exhibition "In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century" at the Barbican Arts Centre in London.



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