Inta ruka biography of mahatma
Inta ruka biography of mahatma
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Inta Ruka
Latvian photographer (born 1958)
Inta Ruka (born 1958) is a Latvianphotographer.[1]
Life and work
Ruka was born in Riga.
She married Egons Spuris, a Latvian photographer.[2] Towards the end of the 1970s, she started her career in photography.[2] In 2006, she worked on another photographic series, Neighbours.[3] Additionally, she received a scholarship of the IASPIS for "two-month artist-in-residence" in Stockholm in 2007,[3] and was given "the highest award of the 'Order of the Three Stars' of the State of Latvia", "Chevalier" ("Knight"), in 2009.[3] Since the end of the 1980s, Ruka has had about twenty exhibitions alone both abroad and in Latvia.[2] She has also taken part in an abundance of group exhibitions worldwide.[2]
Ruka worked with Rolleiflex cameras up until 2004.[3] She would put the Rolleiflex camera on a tripod, and photograph using natural light, waiting unt