Kestutis Ipolitas Stoskus is a Lithuanian born architectural photographer. He was born in March 13th 1951, in Jurbarskas. He is famous for his black and white captivation of photography. His 3rd-15th October 2013 photographs of Old Town is based on the Vilnius where he graduated in Economics in 1973.
His photographs carry a historical beauty of the Town Vilnius, mainly its buildings and it's constructions. He has continued in a tradition started by photographers connected with the town; the likes of Albert Swieykowski, Konrad Brandel, Jozef Czechowicz and many others were in deep relations to the town, Vilnius. A tradition of photography which has evolved constantly from the 19th to the middle of the 20th century. Ipolitas Stoskus does not input daily events in his architectural photographs. He finds the old city itself more importantly than its passer-byes or inhabitants. People rarely appear in his photographs. They're either blurred out or irrelevant to the major impact of the old city Vilnius unless it shows a serenity of naturalness of weather obstructions like rain or any of them performing a role of stiffness to implement a scale of monuments.
People there are mostly, unnamed builders and destroyers of the city and he uses his photographs to indirectly show their activity.
Among all his very real black and white photographs, the one that caught my eyes was his interpretation of

Courtyard in Uzupio Street

a Courtyard in Uzupio Street which looks dead yet still living. The clothes hanging on ropes spread across the street creates a livelihood but the black and white infiltration of the area puts a silence of dead quietness; the falling apart of the road taking from under a tunnel looking covering while a dull light seems to be fighting it's way through so much commotion up ahead feels like a composition of the phrase "there is light after the tunnel." I am very impressed with how a photograph could give me concentrated mixed feelings. The loneliness of the photograph puts a fear of war between curiosity and danger but also carries a feeling of normality as clothes are hung out to dry like various people had done some laundry. The lack of light from the start to the building up of struggling lights creates a thought of disappearance as well as the falling apart of the construction and it's decaying walls. It's a documentation of a city that lived for so long and how even cities, die as humans.