IN SUNSHINE AND SHADOW

In Sunshine and Shadow: Reflections on Lithuanian Immigrant Life

Saulėje ir šešėlyje: pamąstymai apie lietuvių imigrantų gyvenimą

Words and photographs by
Eve Puodžiūnaitė Wicks
with Lithuanian translation by
Gintautas Kaminskas

“A book to hold in one’s hands”

“From one perspective an intimate photograph collection, and an oral history, it is also the remarkable narrative of a second generation Australian Lithuanian coming to grips with the history of her people as she and they negotiate a changing world.”

Dr Stephanie Green, writer & cultural historian

“The author’s accomplished photographic works ... capture a Lithuanian aesthetic, a poetic response as well as historical record.”

marian drew, photographic artist

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“I turned to my cultural roots to find and express the sunshine and shadow in the cycles of loss and renewal in Lithuania’s 20th century history and the joys and hardships of immigrant life in a British-Australian society.”

Eve Puodžiūnaitė Wicks

Maldavimas, 2008 m. Invocation, 2008 — *Maldavimas*, 2008 m. *Invocation*, 2008

„Parodydami, kad jie už laisvę …
tūkstančiai ir tūkstančiai žmonių
stovėjo prie kelio,
ranka rankon.”

EVALDAS SAGATYS

“As a freedom gesture …
thousands and thousands of people
lined up,
and joined hands.”

EVALDAS SAGATYS

“Eve Wicks has created an extraordinary testimony to the life of Lithuanian refugees who settled in Brisbane, Australia, post WWII in her beautifully crafted publication: In Sunshine and Shadow: reflections on Lithuanian Immigrant Life. The book brings together the carefully researched history of the impact of WWII on the Lithuanians with an archive of memories that belong to those who participated in Wicks’ extensive research.

It documents a gradually fading history through sepia photographs, poetry, folk songs, and stories. These moments are punctuated by an achingly poignant collection of photographs taken by Wicks herself. These poetic images, embedded with a sense of yearning for a life that could never be, capture the lost dreams and hopes of the Lithuanians of Brisbane. But they also evoke the bigger picture of a Baltic diaspora that extends across the globe.”