The photographs of Lithuanian expatriate artist Algimantas Kezis (1928-2015) capture modern cityscapes of North America - Chicago, New York, Vancouver. When Lithuania was invaded by the Soviets in 1944, Kezys fled to the West under extremely difficult circumstances and settled with his family in the United States in 1950, where he devoted his life to service in the Jesuit Order as a way of thanking them for surviving the hardships of postwar Europe. He combined his active pastoral and social work with his budding passion for photography, holding an exhibition at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago as early as 1965, publishing his photographs in various US magazines, and publishing albums of his work. Kezis's works, like the paintings of Kazis Varnelis (1917-2010), are distinguished by striking contrasts and the play of shadows, as well as by a special attention to the structure and rhythm of composition. The artist himself has emphasised that form is much more important than content in his work. In the shadow of the austere, timeless architecture, loneliness is revealed as one of the fundamental human conditions. Each shot is the result of surprise, of a sudden admiration for the surrounding environment, and the author never returned to photograph the same place a second time. Today, Kezis's rich creative legacy is a unique part of the narrative of Lithuanian diaspora and modernist photography. The Kazis Varnelis House-Museum (Didžioji st. 26, Vilnius) will be open until 29 December.