Education:
2018 - 2020 California Institute of the Arts, MFA candidate
2017 - 2018 Visual Comunication, Latvian Academy of Arts
2014 - 2016 BA Photography, University of Brighton, First Class Honours
2013 - 2014 School of Art institute of Chicago
Awards:
2020 Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund
2018 Lillian Disney Scholarship
2016 Source photographic review graduate directory
2015 - 18 State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia Creative Grant
2013 SAIC Distinguished Scholarship
Workshops:
2011 – 2013 ISSP school
2008 – 2013 Studio by Andrejs Grants
2015 "Human Nature" ISSP, by Anna Fox and Andrew Bruce
2013 “Book making” ISSP, by Nico Baumgarten
2012 “Editing a project into a book” led by Morten Andersen, ISSP and Norden
2012 “Landscape and Manscape: The Edge of Riga” led by Páll Stefánsson of Iceland Review Magazine, ISSP and Norden
2012 Portfolio review by Anders Petersen, Norden
2012 Arja Hyytiäinen - A personal approach in photography: From diary to fiction, ISSP
2010 “Capturing Your Shadow in Black and White” by Roger Ballen ISSP
2008 “Creative shift in documentary photography” by Andrejs Grants.
Residency:
2018 Art Villa Garikula, Georgia
Films:
2022 Weeping Rocks (In Production)
2020 The Threshold (Short documentary)
Screenings:
2020 Tacoma Film Festival
Riga International Film Festival
Selected for James Benning's Block in Bijou Week, CalArts
Solo exhibitions:
2019 "The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually or Every Man Be Blind" California Institute of the Arts, USA
2018 "The Clouds, They Were Blown From a Far Away Land" Riga, Latvia
2018 "What Hath God Wrought" Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
2013 "Between the Lake and the Sea" Engure, Latvia
Group exhibitions:
2018 "Tiešā Griba" Mūsdienu mākslas galerija, Līvāni, Latvia
2018 Selection of Latvian photography books, Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2018 Tbilisi Night of Photography, Georgia
2018 20 best screenings of this year’s Nuit de l’Année, Arles, France.
2018 Night of The Year, Les Rencontres des Arles, projections, Arles, France.
2018 "Without Too Much Thinking" Room9, Riga, Latvia
2017 Efti, Plurar, 10 Latvian Emerging photographers, projections. Madrid, Spain
2017 Odesa// Batumi Photo Days Festival projection of contemporary Latvian photography, Odesa, Ukraine.
2016 Cream Graduate Showcase, Brighton, UK.
2016 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi province, China.
2016 University of Brighton Graduate show, Brighton, UK.
2016 Ryerson Brighton image exchange, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
2015 Tallin Photo Month, "Photography books from Latvia", Tallin, Estonia
2015 ISSP summer school exhibiton, Kuldīga, Latvia
2015 "Where Are We", One Eyed Jacks Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom
2015 "Shift", Brighton University Second Year Show, Brighton, United Kingdom
2014 Self Publish Riga, Shortlisted of 45, "Between the Lake and The Sea", Riga, Latvia
2013 Grayscale, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA, USA. Director's Choice Award
2013 Delhi Photo Festival, Evening Screening, Delhi, India
2012 Ping-Pong#8, Contemporary Creation from Latvia, Liege, Belgium
2012 "29 Latvian contemporary photographers Rādītprieks", Riga, Latvia
2012 “9 menesi” ISSP school final exhibiton, Riga, Latvia
Publications:
Youtube interview by Careva Contemporary gallery
Radio interview, LR1, "The Clouds, They Were Blown From a Far Away Land"
FK Magazine "The Clouds, They Were Blown From a Far Away Land"
Exhibition review What Hath God Wrought at Latvian Photography Museum
Radio interview Latvian Radio 1
Fotoroom interview 28.07.2017
Latvian Photography Yearbook 2017
Yet Magazine "Once a Dream Did Weave a Shade"
Landscape stories "Once a Dream Did Weave a Shade"
Class of 2016 / The Royal Photographic Sociaty
University of Brighton degree show catalogue BA Photography 2016
ISSP 10 postcard set / Ten years - ten photographers
Joseph Chladek | On Photobooks and books
2015 ISSP Weekly Planner
2015 Yet Magazine
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Karlis Bergs | 2019