Tomas van Houtryve Wants to Figure Out the World

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Interviewer: Berta Tilmantaitė

Photograpy: Berta Tilmantaitė, Mindaugas Drigotas

2017 October 05

Photojournalist Tomas van Houtryve doesn’t enjoy simple projects. For his photo series Blue Sky Days, he made a drone and travelled across America to photograph people gatherings similar to the ones from U.S. drone strike reports from Pakistan and Yemen. The powerful series got him the Infinity Award, one of the most important prizes for a photographer.

Berta Tilmantaitė, photojournalist and co-founder of Nanook met Tomas in Vilnius before the opening of his exhibition. They discussed drones, military, social media and why photojournalism is experiencing its “jazz phase” now.

<p>Tomas van Houtryve posing in his photo exhibition in "Vartai" gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. ©Berta Tilmantaitė</p> — Tomas van Houtryve posing in his photo exhibition in "Vartai" gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. ©Berta Tilmantaitė

<p>Tomas Van Houtryve and Berta Tilmantaitė talking at his photography exhibition in "Vartai" gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. ©Mindaugas Drigotas</p> — Tomas Van Houtryve and Berta Tilmantaitė talking at his photography exhibition in "Vartai" gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. ©Mindaugas Drigotas

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Tomas van Houtryve posing in his photo exhibition in Vartai gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania. ©Berta Tilmantaitė

Photography \ Social issues

Video by Berta Tilmantaitė, Mindaugas Drigotas, Karolis Pilypas Liutkevičius

See all the photos of Blue Sky Days project at Tomas van Houtryve’s website.

Traces of Exile, the new project by Tomas Van Houtryve, that we talked about in the podcast.