The Lilliputian Presence of the Photographer in the Four-Colour World of the Postcard

My study of the graphic arts and my work on photographic material culture were the catalysts sparking my interest in exploring the aesthetics of offset-printed postcards. Prospecting for the unlikely presence of a few Lilliputian photographers hidden under their glossy inks, I enjoyed carefully poring over these vernacular urban theatres with my magnifying glass and my scanner’s pixels, poking around for a few tiny amateur shutterbugs concealed in their midst. Within the network and simulacrum of four-colour printing, a vividly picturesque scene is reproduced, revealed by an absent photographer.

• Artist: Michel Campeau
• Date of publication: October 2024
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 24×30 cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: Swiss bind
• Number of pages: 48 p.
• Type of paper: Galerie Art Silk 150 g/m², Image Coloraction Sevilla 120 g/m², Cordenons Malmero Artique 300 g/m², Kaskad Bullfinch Pink 250 g/m², Eskablack 2mm
• Type of printing: Offset, silkscreen
• Printer: Balto, Tado Vėbros dailės dirbtuvės
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudžinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216141
• Price: 35 Euros

29 Landscapes

Our perceptions of landscapes are influenced by cultural and social factors, and our fears and anxieties towards certain landscapes are rooted in our own subjective experiences.

This collection of 29 silver gelatin dry-plate photographs explores the human relationship with the landscape, from natural scenery to urban and industrial settings. The use of the handmade silver gelatin dryglass plate technique, with some plates left intentionally unwashed to create contamination inside the emulsion itself, adds a layer of complexity to the images, highlighting the human impact on the environment. The inclusion of archival materials from the surface of Mars and early atmospheric nuclear testing footage further emphasises the connection between human activity and the landscape.

Despite the varied subjects depicted, all of them are connected by the line of the horizon, representing the unity and interconnectedness of the landscape, regardless of our own subjective experiences. Through this collection, viewers are invited to reflect on their own relationship with the world around them and consider the impact of human activity on the environment. The natural landscapes evoke a sense of calm and serenity, even though they could turn the opposite way in an instant, while the industrial and nuclear images may provoke discomfort or unease.

The human impact on the environment can take many forms, such as deforestation, pollution, climate change, and habitat destruction. Even seemingly pristine natural landscapes are often affected by factors such as air and water pollution, invasive species, and climate change. This means our relationship with the environment is becoming increasingly complex and intertwined and that we must take steps to mitigate and adapt to the effects of human activity on the natural world.

• Artist: Armands Andže
• Date of publication: May 2023
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 17×420 cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: Roll, Box
• Number of pages: 1 p.
• Type of paper: Munken Lynx 120 g/m²
• Type of printing: Offset, silkscreen
• Printer: Druka
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudžinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216127
• Price: 28 Euros

PW 44

Plastered Bullet Holes remain as traces of events that occurred during the Warsaw Uprising, August 1 to October 2, 1944, against the Nazi German occupation.

• Artist: Valentyn Odnoviun
• Date of publication: October 2021
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 24×30 cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: Folded posters
• Number of pages: 20 p [three posters]
• Type of paper: Munken Lynx 120 g/m², Brun Board 300 g/m², Kraftliner 170 g/m²
• Type of printing: Offset, silkscreen
• Printer: Druka, Tado Vėbros dailės dirbtuvės
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Valentyn Odnoviun, Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216110
• Price: 18 Euros

Vibrations of Material Universe. Thirst of Gold

Gold is an extension of human happiness, and so are everyday images. As every coin has two sides, so has every image.

Seeking to make visible an otherwise invisible threat to the biosphere, contributed from analogue photographic image-making, I slowly create a layer of water on light-sensitive photographic paper and carefully inject the chemicals into it. For me, it serves as a comprehensive gesture, where the aesthetics of hand-made pollution are revealed. Where a watery blue becomes golden.

It’s a gaze and a movement of my hand that recognises water as a universal solvent, treats it as a source of life and transformation and acknowledges it as a collector of chemical waste. Whether it is from large-scale production or one activity, a contaminated substance is created that finds its way back to us through its flow.

There is no way we can avoid our contribution to the ecosystem. No matter how small. But neither can we avoid photographs of this kind exploiting the chemical and physical reactions of physical phenomena themselves. Becoming documents of their own.

• Artist: Kristine Krauze Slucka
• Date of publication: July 2021
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 13,9×21,3 cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: Leporello in a Cover
• Number of pages: 69 p
• Type of paper: Munken Lynx 150 g/m², Cover – Plike Green 330 g/m², Kreativekarton Ruby 270 g/m²
• Type of printing: Offset, silkscreen
• Printer: Druka
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216103

dear donald…

From January 21st 2017-January 21 2018 Anthony Hawley embarked upon a year-long daily drawing project called “Drawings for Donald”: a text-based drawing a day, every day, for 365 days, all for Donald. Each one begins with an epistolary “dear donald...”. His goal was that these would haunt the present, haunt us out of now; haunt language and the abuse of it by political powers. The book includes a set of “spells” created in response to the drawings by a group of other artists, writers, composers and musicians including Angélica Negrón, Laura Sims, Missy Mazzoli, Gabriela Lena Frank, Krista Caballero and more.

 

• Artist: Anthony Hawley
• Date of publication: June 2021
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 9×13,5cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: Rip-Off Calendar and Booklet in a Folder
• Number of pages: Rip-Off Calendar 622p, Booklet 20p
• Type of paper: Maestro print 70 g/m², Kaskad Sparrow Grey 80 g/m², Cover – Nettuno Polvere 270 g/m²
• Type of printing: Offset, digital, foil stamping
• Printer: Balto Print
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216097
• Price: 45 Euros

CORRUPT

“In grade seven, Mr. Smith tried to print an essay for me. He was none too pleased that these images were what printed. It's the only assignment in my entire life I've kept a hardcopy of.”

• Artist: Quintin Teszeri
• Date of publication: January 2021
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 16×24,5cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: One paper sheet book
• Number of pages: 16
• Type of paper: G-print Snow 120 g/m²
• Type of printing: Offset
• Printer: Druka
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216080
• Price: 15 Euros

T6031_T6061_T8001

Drawing from Lismanis´ training and expertise in photography, the series of work published in the book T6031_T6061_T8001 is principally interested in the simple act of breaking down the common patterns involved in the making of a photographic print in the digital age.
Book comes with a unique print by Reinis Lismanis.

• Artist: Reinis Lismanis
• Date of publication: Jun 2019
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 23,5×29,7cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: Singerbind in hardcover
• Number of pages: 24
• Type of paper: Cromatico Transparent 110 g/m²
• Type of printing: UV offset
• Printer: Druka
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216011
• Price: 60 Euros

Liebe Oma, Guten Tag

This multi-layered book project combines images from the artist’s family archive, her own photographs and research material. Historical and personal narratives are told using visual means. By retelling her own family experience, the artist analyses global historical and geopolitical contexts and events during WWII on the border of Lithuania and East Prussia – and its aftermath today.

• Artist: Vilma Samulionyte
• Date of publication: May 2018
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 13×21.5×4.3cm
• Edition size: 99 + 6 AP
• Type of binding: Staple, Swiss binding
• Number of pages: 80 pages book, 24 pages booklet, three 48×60cm posters
• Type of paper: Munken Print Cream 80 g/m², Munken Pure 400 g/m², Arctic Volume Ivory 130 g/m², Colorplan Vermillon Ripple 350 g/m²
• Cover: Metal Box
• Type of printing: offset, silkscreen, foil printing, digital, digital UV printing
• Printer: Druka, Algis Kaveckis, Elegante Press
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216028
• Price: 60 Euros

Layers

‘Layers’ is a story about ideas and dreams and their materialisation in the physical world in the countryside of Latgalia, eastern Latvia. They are visions and plans that have clustered and ‘landed’ on the ground in an appearance of different and extraordinary buildings like lakes in Latvian tales that fly in the sky until they find their right place on the ground. Often these buildings have been built manually by their owners, without the legal planning procedures and can’t be seen in maps or plans, as if they still exist slightly above ground, only as visions in the minds of their creator. These visions, even though they have reached the ground and acquired physical shapes, keep developing and transforming affected by various circumstances, so creating newer and newer layers not only in the landscape of the countryside but also in the mental map of Latgalia and Latvia.

• Artist: Madara Gritāne
• Date of publication: April 2018
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 19.5×21cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: Japanese binding
• Number of pages: 42 gatefold
• Type of paper: Rainbow black 120 g/m², Multi Art Gloss 150 g/m², Eskaboard 3mm
• Cover: Sirio BB 480 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset, silkscreen
• Printer: Druka, Algis Kaveckis
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216011
• Price: 22 Euros

Staged pictures

“Staged Pictures is a collaborative project by Lithuanian artists, where the participating artists are ‘re-acting’ well-known characters from classical paintings, gaining a new identity and becoming the characters themselves. It analyses the relationship between painting and photography, changes the relationship between painting and reality, and is one of the first photographic performances in Lithuanian art. The photographs were created in the last decade of the 20th century.”

• Artist: Audrius Puipa / Gintautas Trimakas
• Date of publication: July 2018
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 21×24cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: Experimental Hand Binding
• Number of pages: 32
• Type of paper: Scandia 2000 Ivory 150 g/m², Kaskad Owl Grey 94, 80 g/m²
• Cover: Gmund Cotton Power Blue 300 g/m²
• Type of printing: tritone offset
• Printer: Druka
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216042
• Price: 40 Euros

Retouch (NRB Postcard Set)

“While retouching digital images, the artist uses silver photographic paper instead of a mousepad. After he is finished he develops the paper, which reveals only the traces of manipulation and the pursuit of a perfect image. The retouched photograph itself remains invisible to the viewer.”

• Artist: Gytis Skudzinskas
• Date of publication: April 2018
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 15×10cm
• Edition size: 99 + 1 AP
• Type of binding: Envelope
• Number of pages: 10 postcards
• Type of paper: Natural Evolution Ivory 320 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset, silkscreen
• Printer: Druka
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• Price: 8 Euros

03

Gabrielė Gervickaitė: “03 is my creative reflection on the soviet times, when I was born and lived for a while. It is my intention to understand deeper which power systems are functioning now and how soviet imagery still influences the times of today. It is important to me which aesthetics and ethics were used while imaging the human body in medical books and tutorials. Comparing medical illustrations that were used in the past and those that are used now, I see forms of medical control. I analyse which ethical views and forms of power exist – what the norms used to be and which are created now.”

• Artist: Gabrielė Gervickaitė
• Date of publication: August 2018
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 16.6×16.6cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: Leporello
• Number of pages: 32
• Type of paper: Scandia 2000 Ivory 150 g/m²
• Cover: ______00 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset
• Printer: Druka
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216035
• Price: 12 Euros

Nuogirdos

Everyday aphorisms.

• Artist: Ričardas Šileika
• Date of publication: October 2017
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 6.9×3cm
• Edition size: 99
• Type of binding: ???
• Number of pages: 102
• Type of paper: Munken Print 80 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset
• Printer: Druka
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786098216004

Photograms (NRB postcard set)

The artist Valdemaras Manomaitis creates his photograms in a bit different way then we are used see. Normally the object is placed on a photo-paper and held in a light. After developing it we see its contour. Valdemaras Manomaitis is using light of an object itself, in this case, mobile phone. This way it transfers a telephone SMS to a paper and returns the modern technology to an analogical way of information transmitting. “Photograms” is released as postcard set and offers to send a message not in a digital form, but in epistolary way...

• Artist: Valdemaras Manomaitis
• Date of publication: June 2017
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 15×9 cm
• Edition size: 99 + 1 AP
• Type of binding: Spiral binding
• Number of pages: 21 postcard
• Type of paper: Natural Evolution Ivory 320 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset
• Printer: Druka
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• Price: 15 Euros

Photoobjects

The works of Arunas Kulikauskas are like everyday notes and diaries of different experiences. He creates an intimate picture of his surrounding by capturing domestic, work or travel moments. Later these images are polaroid-transferred onto simple everyday objects found at home, in the yard or wherever he is. In his work he refuses any kind of importance to exaltations, events or subjects. He is always focused and respectful towards the photographer’s craft. This book as well as his photography are created while trying to highlight the idea of handcrafted work, the individuality of each piece and authentic experiences in everyday life. The pages of the book are individually torn apart and each cover is uniquely created by the artist.

• Artist: Arūnas Kulikauskas
• Date of publication: September 2017
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 15×17 cm
• Edition size: 99 + 1 AP
• Type of binding: Coptic Stitch binding
• Number of pages: 72
• Type of paper: Munken Print 150 g/m², Plike Bordeaux 330 g/m²
• Cover: Oak
• Type of printing: offset, silkscreen
• Printer: Druka
• Binding: NoRoutine Books
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786099563893
• Price: 150 Euros

Scenos / Stages

Glance at Lithuanian 21st century Typological photography. Boox compiled according the exhibition at A. Moncys house-museum in Palanga. Box contains five singer bind books by Lithuanian photographers and artist working in the field of contemporary visual art. Plus a laporello with documentation of the exhibition. Each book presents one series of each artist. “Spaces” by Dainius Liskevicius [2001], “Shelter for Painting” by Alvydas Lukys [2008/2014], “60 Monuments” by Vilma Samulionyte [2012-], “Backgrounds” by Gytis Skudzinskas [2011ž], “Faces and Figures” by Darius Žiūra [2008-].

• Artists: Dainius Liškevičius, Alvydas Lukys, Vilma Samulionytė, Gytis Skudžinskas, Darius Žiūra
• Date of publication: March, 2017
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 16×19×3,5 cm
• Edition size: 99 + 1 AP
• Type of binding: Singer binding
• Number of pages: 5 books in total 132 pages (16 – Dainius Liškevičius / 24 – Darius Žiūra / 24 – Gytis Skudzinskas / 28ž– Alvydas Lukys / 28 – Vilma Samulionytė / 12 – leporello – exhibition documentation, text)
• Type of paper: G-Print 170 g/m², Arctic Volume White 130 g/m²
• Cover: Box
• Type of printing: offset
• Printer: Druka
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786099563862
• Price: 60 Euros

Tada / Then

The book reveals photographs taken in between 1985 – 1995 (last decade of the Communist regime in Lithuania) which where used as a visual material and inspiration for paintings. In the photographs, we find surreal Soviet-era surroundings. The constructive look of the author purifies the Soviet architectural landscape towards the symetric compositions ant turns them into certain sculptural compositions. The introductions essay by philosopher Leonidas Donskis “Started and unfinished reality” fits few possibilities for interpretation. First, photographs are showing unfinished remains of the totalitarian system, and on the other hand, those sketches are becoming pieces of art in their own right.

• Artist: Algis Griskevicius
• Date of publication: October, 2016
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 21×24 cm
• Edition size: 99 + 1 AP + Silver gelatin print span(15x12 cm.)
• Type of binding: Experimental binding
• Number of pages: 64 + 16 (gatefold)
• Type of paper: Munken Print 150 g/m², G-Print 115 g/m²
• Cover: Beermat Board 500 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset
• Printer: Druka
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786099563855

Burning slides

Touched by the flame, images retrieved from strangers’ archives change their structure. The nature and urban scenes they originally depicted mutate into abstract glimmers of parallel worlds. Creative rather than destructive, the flame expands the borders of perception and interpretation of these images, opening up paradoxical depth in their surface seemingly out of nothing.

• Artist: Aurelija Maknyte
• Date of publication: June, 2016
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 15×16,5 cm
• Edition size: 99 + 1 AP
• Type of binding: Experimental binding
• Number of pages: 48
• Type of paper: Arctic Volume Ivory 150 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset
• Printer: Druka
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786099563848

Invisible images

While combining personal and archival material and drawing references from the experiments in social psychology carried out by Solomon Ash, Stanley  Milgram and Philip Zimbardo, this is a tale of psychological reality experienced by an individual upon encountering and ultimately losing one’s identity in the social environment.

• Artist: Ieva Balode
• Date of publication: April, 2016
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 18×18 cm
• Edition size: 99 + 1 AP
• Type of binding: Experimental binding
• Number of pages: 32 + 12 pages leporello
• Type of paper: Munken Lynx 115 g/m², G-Print 130 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset
• Printer: Druka
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786099563831

Some thesis on photography

Skudzinskas&rsquž; creative methodics and philosophy can be identified as a certain metaphysics of photography or even radiology of photography. He has no interest in the image as such; what is central in his work is the innards of the image, the underlying principles of its functioning, or its placement in a wider contextual system. Skudzinskas oftež abandons any physical artefacts of photography entirely by substituting them with the signs of a different kind-for example, texts. Preview book on Issuu.

• Artist: Gytis Skudzinskas
• Date of publication: December 2015
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 15×18 cm
• Edition size: 99 + 3 AP
• Type of binding: Swiss binding
• Number of pages: 104
• Type of paper: Kaskad Fawn 130 g/m², Multi Art Silk 150 g/m², Munken Pure 130 g/m², Cyclus Offset 140 g/m², G-Print 150 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset
• Printer: Druka
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786099563824

Nails

These are forty photos depicting bent and no longer useful nails; with the folding of the photos, the nails are seemingly given back their functionality. By retaining the size of the object photographed and revealing the variety of forms, an archive of useless things is being created.

• Artist: Evelina Kerpaite
• Date of publication: 2015
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 15,5×17 cm
• Edition size: 99 + 3AP
• Type of binding: Leporello
• Number of pages: 48
• Type of paper: G-Print 150 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset
• Printer: Druka
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786099563817

Album

Album is formed from found photographs. Images have lost their original function (memory). To be more specific, no one remembers what is depicted in these photographs and why these images were created. The most understandable signs on photographs are notes and time left marks on the backs of found images. The reverse of photographs in the installation and the book eliminates the primary function of the non-verbal message. Only notes and time affected surfaces allow perceivers to interpret the “invisible” story. But you always know that there is something else. Preview “Album” on Issuu.

• Artist: Gytis Skudzinskas
• Date of publication: 2014
• Place of publication: Lithuania
• Dimensions: 17×18,5 cm
• Edition size: 99 + 1AP
• Type of binding: Traditional Japanese book binding
• Number of pages: 48
• Type of paper: Munken Pure 80 g/m²
• Type of printing: offset
• Printer: Druka
• Publisher: NoRoutine Books
• Designer: Gytis Skudzinskas
• ISBN: 9786099563800
• Each book comes with one original found photograph.