Inta ruka biography books
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Rüsselsheim, Germany
Jessica Backhaus (1970); Lucinda Devlin (1947); Lara Faroqhi; Simone Fischer; Thomas Florschuetz (1957); Andreas Gefeller (1970); Sibylle Hoessler; Clay Ketter (1961); Andrej Krementschouk (1973); Beatrice Minda (1968); Loredana Nemes (1972); Marja Pirilä; Inta Ruka (1958); Ulrich Schwarz; Shizuka YOKOMIZO (1966);
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Köln, Germany
Inta Ruka (1958);
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Umeå, Sweden
Inta Ruka (1958);
Inta Ruka
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Biography Inta Ruka
1958 Born in Riga, Latvia
1973–76 Business school of Riga, certificate as a seamstress
1979–82 Education and collaboration at the “V.E.E.“ studio, Riga, in the class of Gunãrs Birkmanis
1983 Starts to work on the photographic series My Country People
1983–84 Member of the photographer group “Riga”, Riga
1984–88 Member of the photo studio “Ogre”, leader Egons Spuris, Ogre (LV)
since 1985 Member of the photographer group “A”, Riga
1986–88 Works as a freelance photographer
since 1990 Member of the Designer Association of Latvia
1998 Grant of the Hasselblad Foundation
1999 Spídola-Award of the Latvian Culture Foundation
2000 Starts to work on the photographic series People I Happened to Meet
2002 Scholarship at the hus Waldberta, Feldafing/Starnberger See (D)
2003 “Price of the Year” of the Artist’s Union of Latvia for her exhibition with Egons Spuris at the State Art Museum in Riga
2004 Starts to work on the photographic series Amali
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Moderna Museet Now: Inta Ruka
Amalias Street 5a
24.10 2008 – 1.3 2009
On the outskirts of Riga lies Amalias Street 5a, a house whose tenants have been documented by photographer Inta Ruka since 2004. The photos are presented, as in all Inta Ruka’s projects, together with short comments based on what the individuals have told her. The comments are about why they live the way they do, who they know, what they do for a living or want to become, their economy and family situation. In fact, the series is about the big questions – about happiness, sorrow, love and hate – about life.
Inta Ruka was born in Riga in 1958 and started photographing in the late 1970s. After a few years, in 1983, she embarked on the series My Country People, which she has pursued up until 2000, documenting people and life in her native region, Balvi, in eastern Latvia near the Russian border. The result was a collection of portraits of her relatives and friends and of a vanishing rural culture.