Antanas Sutkus (Lithuanian, b. 1939) 

Born in Lithuania in 1939 in Kluoniškiai, Kaunas district, Lithuania, Antanas Sutkus studied journalism at Vilnius University from 1958 to 1964 before starting his career as a photojournalist. He was one of the co-founders and President of the Photography Art Society of Lithuania (PASL), which championed photography as an art form and is credited with gaining recognition for Lithuanian photographers on the national and international scene. Amongst his most important work is his series 'People of Lithuania', an ongoing project begun in 1976 which documents the changing life of Sutkus's homeland. His aim, he has written, is 'to make an attempt at drawing a psychological portrait of contemporary man….because future generations will judge our way of life, our culture and our inner world on the basis of photographs'.

In 2001-02, Sutkus won the Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation Grant, Sweden, for the ‘Documentation and Conservation of Antanas Sutkus’ Archive of Photographs’. His works are displayed in the collections of the Lithuanian Museum of Art, Vilnius; National Library, Paris; Museum of French Photography, Paris; Museum of Photography, Helsinki; the International Centre of Photography, New York; Institute of Arts, Chicago; Art Museum, Minneapolis; Art Museum, Boston; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; and The Moscow House of Photography.