Every city in the world has its own "face", which is difficult to describe in words because it is not about architecture and people, but about action, emotion and being. If you were to close your eyes and imagine the "face" of Kaunas, what would it be? The rhythmicity of modernist architecture and the play of geometric details, the pattern of the pavement tiles of the old Laisvės Avenue, the green spaces of Santaka and the Musical Theatre, the shop windows, the interstices, the staircases, the station, the factories, the Nemunas, which are all intertwined with the faces of strangers, with the movement of the city, with someone walking, sitting, watching, fogging, speaking, working, dreaming, playing, smiling, or picking their nose, would all spring up before your eyes...

For more than a decade, Remis Ščerbauskas has photographed the streets of Kaunas, capturing various moments in the life of the city, where architectural details of the city are intertwined with cultural and social events. Although it is difficult to classify Ščerbauskas's work as street photography, the multiplicity of his photographs, the variety of meanings and compositions make it possible to say that his work complements or even extends the boundaries of this genre.

Each of Ščerbauskas's photographs is a unique narrative or instant theatre of the city, although there is nothing pre-arranged in the photographs, no-one is alerted, and sometimes they are not even aware of the fact that they have been caught in the shot. And most importantly, the captured moment will never be replicated. The photographer's work records the memory of the city - the vivid types of people, their looks and emotions, the architectural details that reflect the city's peculiarities, the everyday events. Ščerbauskas' photography becomes valuable not only from a creative point of view, but also from a documentary point of view, even as a social research. Street photography is not for everyone. It requires inexhaustible perseverance and stubbornness, training the eye to not only observe the whole environment, but also to instantly compose an image out of the myriad of variables. Ščerbauskas adds a gentle irony, a play of details and a rigorous rhythmic quality to the images he composes. Viewers can enjoy the aesthetics of the photographs, the concrete elements, the architecture of the city, the features of personalities, while the more attentive ones will see the action, emotion and state of the city suspended in the moment, and will be able to see the true "face" of Kaunas through the photographer's eyes.