What is Antanas Sutkus?
[[File:Toulouse - Château d'eau Laganne - 20110325 (1).jpg|thumb|right|Exhibition of Sutkus's work at the [[Château d'Eau]], [[Toulouse]]]] '''Antanas Sutkus''' (born 27 June 1939 in Kluoniškiai, [[Kaunas district]]) is a renowned [[Lithuania]]n photographer and recipient of the [[Lithuanian National Prize]]. He also received the [[Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas]].<ref name=bern/> He was one of the co-founders and a President of the Photography Art Society of Lithuania ({{lang-lt|Lietuvos fotografijos meno draugija}}).<ref name=vam/> Sutkus's series ''People of Lithuania'' is considered one of his most important works. It is a continuing project begun in 1976 to document the changing life and people of Lithuania.<ref name=vam/> Working at the time when Lithuania (as the [[Lithuanian SSR]]) was part of the [[Soviet Union]], Sutkus focused on black and white portraits of ordinary people in their everyday life rather than the model citizens and workers promoted by [[Soviet propaganda]].<ref name=brow/> Sutkus had an opportunity to spend time with [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Simone de Beauvoir]] in 1965 when they visited Lithuania. One image, taken against the white sand of [[Nida, Lithuania|Nida]], is highly regarded as capturing Sartre's ideas.<ref name=neum/> ==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name=bern>{{in lang|lt}} [http://www.bernardinai.lt/index.php?url=articles/96825 Antanui Sutkui – 70] (2009-06-30). Bernardinai.lt</ref> <ref name=brow>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TIALJEL2PhAC&dq=antanas+sutkus&pg=PA41 Remaking Europe in the margins: Northern Europe after the enlargements by Christopher S. Browning, p. 41]</ref> <ref name=neum>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BlTFZC1NZG0C&dq=antanas+sutkus&pg=PA251 Beyond memory: Soviet nonconformist photography and photo-related works of art by Diane Neumaier, Jane Voorhees, p. 251]</ref> <ref name=vam>[http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/photographer.php?photographerid=ph053&row=0 Exploring Photography : Photographers : Antanas