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"Naked" is a collection of works by Lithuanian photographer Rimaldas Vikšraitis (1954-). For many years, he has walked through the rural areas of his hometown, documenting the poverty, drinking, aging, and decay of the lives of the people who live there, using a unique style that blends black humor and surrealism. He gained international recognition when he won the Discovery Award at the 2009 Arles International Photography Festival, recommended by Martin Parr, who highly valued his talent. Parr described his photographs as "a little crazy and wonderfully surreal." This book is a compilation of his work over approximately 25 years, centered around the theme of "nudity." The naked people standing in rural houses, fields, and streets appear not as sensual nudes, but as the primal form of humanity stripped of social attributes and possessions. Vikšraitis himself sometimes appears naked in the frame, blurring even the boundaries between photographer and photographed. This unconventional work blends bleak reality, absurdity, intimacy, and bizarre staging, vividly highlighting the author's idea that "everyone is the same when they're naked."
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