Algis Kemezys started taking photographs in the early seventies. His fine-art career began in 1979 with the apprenticeship to the doyenne of photography, the late BERENICE ABBOTT, discoverer of EUGENE ATGET and assistant to MAN RAY. He has had his most important retrospective at the Vilnius Art Gallery, Lithuania (1998), and has been awarded three international awards. Born in Canada, he has divided his time between Québec and the U.S., and has traveled to many countries around the globe.

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