Major announcment. Toms Harjo is now represented by VV Foundation.
— June 18th, 2019 —
Music video for the Latvian band EZERI.
Directed, edited and filmed by Toms Harjo. Idea by Toms Harjo & Miķelis Putniņš.
— June 5th, 2019 —
Directed by Toms Harjo. Filmed and edited by Toms Harjo & Lotta Harjo.
Eva Saukāne is a Latvian photographer who focuses on historical photo and video archives, family albums and found photography. In her latest project Mets she turns to the unrealised Riga metro project.
— May, 2019 —
Directed by Toms Harjo. Filmed and edited by Toms Harjo & Lotta Harjo.
Latvian photographer Elīna Semane candidly documents her daily life, which is affected by complicated mutual relationships, mood swings, addiction to social networks and drive for constant self-representation. She uses her Instagram stories, performance and analog photography to create a portrait of Generation Z.
— March, 2019 —
Directed, filmed and edited by Toms Harjo. Produced by Gilles Bonnevialle.
A ballet dancer Silvère Jarrosson in his final year of Paris Ballet School of the Opéra gets a hip replacement surgery and has his life turned upside down.
— November, 2018 —
Directed by Toms Harjo. Filmed by Toms Harjo, Arnis Balčus, Lotta Harjo. Edited by Toms Harjo & Lotta Harjo.
Georgs Avetisjans (1985) is a Latvian photographer, who addresses his roots in his projects so rich in textual and visual details – either the seaside village Kaltene, where he comes from, or Armenia, to which his father’s family is related.
— September, 2018 —
News! During summer a contest of 300 people has taken place and 18 students have been selected to become part of The New Riga Therate Study. I feel honored to be part of the group and to study dramatic theatre acting for the next 4 years.
Photography, video and design projects and collaborations are NOT on hold and are continuing as before!
Even though the title for the interview is a little towards the dramatic, an excerpt of my series In the Truth is published on Fotoroom. This has been the most clarifying text I’ve written about the project that touches on the basis and the background of images.
Early November I directed a short on artist Vika Eksta. Today FK Magazine launched it. Take a look!
— November 23rd, 2017 —
Series In the Truth exhibited in Lisbon (Part of European photography platform Parallel). Works installed in a shape of a heptagon - a multifaceted portrait, which can be walked around and read both directions.
Avoiding the academically decorative aesthetics of yearbooks, we made an issue, which focuses on the relationship between the graduate and his school. Environment, which, being a bearer of unique memories and feelings, changes in the pace of graduates themselves. In the result of this interaction, I have documented traces (relationships, handwritings, reflections motivated by laziness etc), which may not seem instantly glorifying, but are genuine. This is a diary of a graduate.
Group exhibition Draught (Caurvējš) is open until June 22nd. This is the first exhibition for my series In the Truth (Patiesībā).
(1) Poster: Toms Harjo from series In the Truth (2) Poster installation at Dzirnavu 27, Riga (3) Photo from the opening of the exhibition (Photo: Arnis Balcus)
The second video from Belarus series! Video on artist Alexandra Soldatova, who portrays complicated topics in not too serious manner and finds inspiration by watching her daughter play with a camera.
The first video from the trip to Belarus! It is a remark on how complicated it is to talk about the history and the representation of a place depicted by mass media. Just as our personalities and decisions, cities and countries are led by multifaceted narratives. This video is about the way photography can help to discover, embrace and tell the layered stories in non-literal way.
The emotional dynamics of watching a movie graphically visualized as cardiograms in a new book on probably the most iconic Latvian filmmaker - Jānis Streičs!
Hidden Guards exhibited in gallery Raunas vārti, Cēsis.
It consists of anonymous portraits of behind the scenes workers. The light throughout the day shifts, so some of the workers can be seen only at a particular time of the day.
