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Viktorija Vaisvilaite Seven times a winner - part 2 of 1 2 3

Published 01/06/2012

Viktorija readily admits that her inspiration for her photography is people. "I am in love with people," she says. "My photography is all about them." When you look at her work you can see exactly what she means, because it's clear that this photographer has a clear eye for what an earlier generation called 'the decisive moment.' Her skill is to act as an observer, to allow those in front of her to be natural and unaffected and to sit and wait for the moment when everything magically comes together. It could be a fleeting expression, a movement, an interaction, and the instant is captured, with Viktorija's skill being a natural ability to knit all the elements together in a beautifully composed whole.

When questioned about the apparent editorial style that she brings to her wedding photography Viktorija has to explain that she doesn't know what the term means. She's not following a movement or a trend, rather she's just working on instinct and capturing the event as she sees it, automatically picking out the key interactions almost without realising it. "It often seems to me that you can dream your life," she says. "So I dream. And then you simply live with eyes opened wide and if you look closely enough little wonders keep happening around you. I am haunted by the suspicion that you can invite special moments into your life and I often experience a vibrant anticipation of things that are about to happen. I believe there are moments that unlock some secret doors when little pieces of the world come into exact positions. I dream of these discoveries, I call for them and they come."

When asked about her inspiration, and whether this comes from other wedding photographers or maybe some of the great documentary photographers of the past, the likes of Henri Cartioer-Bresson or Robert Doisneau, Viktorija explains that she simply follows her heart and photographs the images that appear to her when she bonds with her camera. "I draw my inspiration from various sources," she says, " and this is not necessarily photography at all. When I first came across the Japanese poetic form of haiku, for example, it seemed to open a lot of doors to my understanding. The fact that you only had three lines and seventeen syllables and yet this could be enough to pour oceans. You can read it in one breath and still get a provocative and colourful experience, a sense of sudden enlightenment and illumination. I believe there are such brief moments in life that might be caught by a camera and can then unfold as a photographic haiku. These are the images you can dive deep into and which can tell you story after story. These are the images I dream of."

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