urban spirits


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  • name: Nikodemas;
  • place we met: Cathedral sq.;
  • he is: a sounding spirit of the city;
  • he listens to: spanish music and reggae;
  • we have been dreaming to photograph him for a long time,
    but he was riding his bicycle every time we seen him or
    perfomed something, surrounded by krishna-people :)
  • he: recommended us to go to a bohemian place “Suokalbis”
    to take a photo of his friend the Grand Duke of Lithuania,
    but we already have caught him.

we are waiting for details from Nikodemas via email :)
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what we need in street photography badly is a feedback;
some of our “lucky catches” do not use inet, but they are
still curious of results - so we’ve just found Rožė on the
streets to present her shots we’ve done before:

“ah, i’m beautiful!” - she said proudly with a touch of surprise
(as if she wasn’t aware of it). and you know what - Rožė loved most
the photo our readers have chosen (that, with expression)! :)

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  • name: The Grand Duke Gediminas Vildaugas
  • he is: a spirit of Vilnius, you can meet on Pilies str.,
    a poetic improvisator, from time to time showting political slogans;
  • also he: edits books in lithuanian with his wife; that day he got
    a write-book of his daughter (as he noticed there is a siluet of
    naked woman on a cover) and gifted his sonets to passers-by.
  • place we met: between Barbacan & Užupis, near some
    “house of Heific”, as the Duke and his friend-the chemist told us;

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As it was promised, we continue the exposition of Rose’s (Rožytė’s) attires.
Place we met: Rūdninkų str (railway and bus stations’ direction);
Click for “more” to see her new bag! According to Rožė, this is
her top favourite thing for this week.
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Every city has it’s own spirit.
One of Vilnius’ spirits is a colourful woman
known as Rožė (Rose), though her real name is Vida.

  • Day by day she walks about Didžioji, Pilies str and Gediminas ave -
    asking for money in her own a bit flirtatious manner,
    and every time in a new dress.
  • She prefers sparks and vividness (especially lilac);
  • She enjoyes being photographed -
    every time asking for 5 or 10 lt for a session; and
    after each session she is naturally curious about the results.
  • At the same time it turned to be quite difficult to interview Rose -
    her answers are somehow evasive.

So, we decided to create a gallery of her attires, filling it up from time to time.

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