Lithuanian photographer, Lithuanian-American cultural activist.
He started attending school in Kybartai, then studied at Vilnius III Gymnasium. In 1944, he moved to Germany with his parents and graduated from the Lithuanian Gymnasium in Dypholz. In 1950 he settled in the USA and entered a Jesuit monastery. In 1959 he graduated in philosophy from Loyola University in Chicago. Ordained a priest in 1961. He worked in youth organisations and took care of their press. From 1963 to 1967 he edited the newspaper "Žvaigždė". On his initiative, the Lithuanian Photo Archive (now the Stasys Budrys Archive) was established in Chicago in 1966, which he headed until 2002; in 1980 the Lithuanian Art Gallery was founded. Co-founder and director of the Lithuanian Youth Center of Chicago, 1974-1977, and of the Lithuanian American Library Publishing House, 1977. In the mid-1980s, he resigned from the priesthood.
Became interested in the art of photography while still a student, around 1958. The photographs are metaphorical, laconic in composition, with highly expressive forms. Since 1963, he has held solo photography exhibitions in the USA, Canada, South America and Europe. More than 10 annual exhibitions in Lithuania. He has edited and published monographs, art and photography albums. He has edited and published about 40 art albums and books. He made documentary films about famous people and cultural events in the Lithuanian diaspora. He has accumulated an archive of Lithuanian art. His photographs are held by various museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (both in New York), and the National Library in Paris.
