"Restless travellers" and "Victories and defeats "these are closely interrelated publications presenting the work of an early famous photographer. They are united by the period of the 1970s, in which published photographs were created, and by the common theme of motorcycling, which the author looks at from different perspectives in each publication. The immediate relationship with the period immortalized in photographs will help to discover the diary of R. Požerskis' youth, amateur films and personal photo albums of the photographer's comrades, which are exhibited together with photographs.
The book "Restless Travelers" presents fragments of the personal album photography of R. Požerskis and his youthful friends from 1971 to 1975 and the author's diary of that time. In the first half of the 1970s, R. Požerskis, his fellow schoolgirl Virgis Lankas, cousin Petras Pocius and Zenonas Langtis traveled around Lithuania on motorcycles, sometimes preparing for further trips, such as Tallinn. Young motorcyclists then did not associated themselves either with the biker movement or with the hippie community that existed in Kaunas. But travel, freedom, sometimes romantic and sometimes dramatic experiences along the way were inevitably associated with the then alternative Western culture and its rebellious spirit. Romualdas and his friends listened to The Doors, Led Zeppelinar Black Sabbath, read Jack Kerouac, sewed motorcycle jackets with "tassels", wide jeans and... dreamed of a free Lithuania, without political and ideological constraints, without restrictions on individual freedom."
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