On 27 September at 6 pm, the documentary ‘Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm’ (2018) directed by Richard Shaw will have its Lithuanian premiere at the Romuva Cinema. The film is an intimate portrait of the renowned British photographer Dorothy Bohm, inviting to discover a creative mind of the artist who’s impressive career spans more than six decades and several continents.
The film will be screened in the original language (English).
Dorothy Bohm (born 1924) spent her childhood in Memel (now Klaipėda), where she enjoyed a relatively carefree childhood. When Lithuania was occupied by the Nazis in 1939, the Dorothy’s parents decided to send her to the UK. There, Dorothy graduated in photography and began to practice portrait photography, establishing her own photography studio. Eventually, she abandoned studio photography after becoming interested in street photography. After a long period of shooting mainly black and white images, she used Kodak colour film for the first time, and thereafter abandoned black and white entirely. Although she stopped taking pictures a few years ago, Dorothy Bohm’s passionate engagement with her photography continues unabated. With some twenty-five solo exhibitions and over fifteen publications to her name, she is widely acknowledged as a doyenne of British photography.
The screening accompanies Dorothy Bohm’s exhibition ‘A World Observed‘ at Kaunas Photography Gallery.
The event is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.