Twelve years ago Anya Stonelake arrived in London and started White Space Gallery. In that time she has missed twelve Russian winters in her beloved St Petersburg and twelve Baltic springs but it is our good fortune that we have not. Thanks to Anya we have discovered the freshness of the New Artists and Timur Novikov from St Petersburg and the poetry of unknown Baltic photographers. Her acute sense of both what has happened and what is happening has introduced the British public to new artists a…

Born in 1939, Sutkus studied journalism at Vilnius University between 1958 –1964. He was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Society of Photographic Art in 1969, and its chairman in 1980 – 1989. In 1989–1990 and since 1996 he is the chairman of the Union of the Lithuanian Art Photographers. In 1983 he received the Lithuanian State Premium for Art; in 1997 he was decorated with the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas of the 4th degree; in 1998 he received the Art Award of the Li…

Seeing Through a Glass Darkly is photographic exhibition of 7 artists from Lithuania and Russia. It presents an unofficial history of photographic work taken in Eastern Europe from 1960s to the present day. Over 40 meditative photographs are gathered in this exhibition, by some of the most important yet not fully discovered artists from Lithuania and Russia including Igor Mukhin, Antanas Sutkus, Andrey Tarkovsky and Rimaldas Viksraitis.Based on the words of the Apostle Paul: “For N…

Part I, London: 11 September - 10 October Anya Stonelake / White Space Gallery No. 13, Mason's Yard, St James's, London SW1Y 6BU Tel: 020 7399 9571 www.whitespacegallery.co.uk Part II, Moscow: 26 September - 26 October Gallery.Photographer.ru Bottling Hall, Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, 4th Syromyatnicheskiy pereulok, 1/9 Moscow www.gallery.photographer.ru …

"Beach Photography" brings together the work of eight internationally renowned photographers who have explored the culture of the working-class seaside resort in locations ranging from East Anglia to Eastern Europe. These are not images of exotic locations. There are no brilliant white sands and Caribbean sunsets, but even without the glamour, a trip to the beach is still an escape. Whether in Bognor Regis or Bulgaria, a common theme in the work of these photographers is the budget resort, wher…

Private view: Monday, 15 May 18.30 – 20.30 Talk by Antanas Sutkus: Friday, 19 May 2.00 at Photo-London Photography Fair, Royal Academy, Burlington Gardens, London, W1. Tel. 0207 839 9300. White Space Gallery is pleased to announce first UK solo exhibition by Antanas Sutkus (born 1939), Lithuania’s most famous photographer. As leader of the "Great generation" of Lithuanian photographers who made their mark in the 1960s, Sutkus has been a strong influence on subsequent development of photo…