Iveta Vaivode

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VIDEO: Iveta Vaivode talks about finding beauty in the hinterlands of her home city Riga.

VIDEO: Iveta Vaivode talks about finding beauty in the hinterlands of her home city Riga.

VIDEO: Iveta Vaivode talks about finding beauty in the hinterlands of her home city Riga.

"Photography is my means of finding happiness" Iveta Vaivode declares. She began her career in photography as a fashion photographer, but following her studies at the Arts Institute in Bournemouth in the UK, has increasingly turned towards a more personal, landscape-based, approach to her work.

In "Terminus Riga", she investigates the city's edges as indicated by the termini of the public tram lines. Working with these unpromising landscapes and interiors that mark the city's boundaries Iveta has produced a series of images that are a very personal and intimate view of the city.

In 2005 Iveta was invited to join Young Photographers United (YPU) in Belgium, which selects talented photographers from around the world. In the same year she had her work shown in the "Women in Perspective" exhibition in Antwerp and in the group show "Niveart" at the Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels. In 2008 she was selected by the Photographer's Gallery to take part in "Freshfaced and Wildeyed". Winner of the 2008 Nikon Discovery Award, she was also included in the PDN Photography Annual in New York. In 2007 she was nominated for the Latvia Photography Award of the Year. Iveta has exhibited widely in Latvia and Lithuania.

Iveta currently lectures at the Photography School in Riga, Latvia.