On September 28 at 6 p.m. Dorothy Bohm’s exhibition ‘A World Observed’ will open at Kaunas Photography Gallery where it will be on display until November 13.
A comprehensive retrospective of the renowned British artist of Litvak origin invites visitors to explore the artist who’s impressive career spans more than six decades and several continents. The exhibition features black and white and colour images illustrating the different phases of the Dorothy Bohm’s career and inviting to discover a wide array of aesthetically striking and deeply humane works that document people and landscapes in a rapidly changing world.
According to exhibition curator Monica Bohm-Duchen, ‘While the human figure in its natural setting remained the primary focus of Dorothy Bohm’s work, and she still used photography in its purest, un-manipulated form, her approach became more painterly and allusive, with an increasing interest in spatial and other forms of ambiguity.’ Dorothy Bohm’s retrospective at the Kaunas Photography Gallery will offer a glimpse of this transformation and into different elements of the photographer’s creative biography.
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.
Curated by Monica Bohm-Duchen.
The exhibition will run until November 13.
The exhibition is supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture.