Edis Jurčys
Klaipėda, Lithuania
Edis Jurčys was born in Klaipėda in 1957 and started photographing in school.
- VGIK, Moscow TV cameraman
- 30+ solo exhibitions
- In the Portland Art Museum collection
- Show at Lithuania's National Library
- Retrospective book Being Near, 2021
“You could say ferries are bridges carried by water.”
He worked with the Lithuanian SSR Society of Art Photography, studied film at VGIK and spent eight years as a cameraman for Moscow State Television. He has lived in the United States since 1989 and in Portland for more than three decades, working as a photographer and videographer. He has made more than twenty photographic series and held more than thirty solo exhibitions, in Portland, Seattle, Lithuania, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Japan and New Zealand.
His prints are in the collections of the Portland Art Museum and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. His retrospective book Being Near came out in 2021; in 2022 the National Library of Lithuania showed Anxious Life. He sits on Blue Sky's exhibition committee, and his ferry series Crossing Waters is in the Pacific Northwest Drawers through March 2027.
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