Some “A-point” airports have special aircraft monitoring areas and built platforms. In these places, aviation enthusiasts are allowed to get close to the planes so that they can see the pilots sitting in the cockpits and hear the roar of the jet engines.
Visitors come to “A points” to take pictures and mark airplane registration numbers. Here, the exciting sights and sounds of aviation combine with sports activities, snacking, children’s education, romantic encounters or even therapy. Some people come to these places to say goodbye to loved ones and watch their planes take off, while for others, the movement of planes is a way to overcome homesickness. For the avid flight watcher, a visit to the “A” of each airport you travel to can be like a pilgrimage.
The photographs of the “A-point” cycle were created in Auckland (New Zealand), Singapore, St. In or around the airports of Martin Island, Istanbul, Vilnius, Riga, Warsaw, Berlin, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Toulouse, Barcelona, Lisbon, Zurich, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington and other cities .
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas(b. 1974 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian photographer, curator and culture manager living in Kaunas. Since 1993 he is a member of the Lithuanian Union of Photographers. 1989-1992 studied at the Kaunas School of Photography. He obtained the bachelor’s (1996) and master’s (2000) degrees in art history at Kaunas Vytautas the Great University. 1997-1998 studied at the National School of Photography in Arles, France; in 1998 – ENSB-A in Paris. 2000-2001 he spent an academic year at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, at the same time interning at the Musée de l’Elysée. Interest in documentary photography led Kavaliauskas to create his first large-scale work, “Kražiai portretas” (2001-2003), which was widely exhibited in Europe and beyond. After starting to organize the KAUNAS PHOTO festival (2004), the photographer no longer had time for personal creativity. However, often flying to exhibitions, festivals and portfolio reviews and from them in Europe and beyond, discovered that the camera can depict the human relationship with aviation in airports, on airplanes. This is how the idea of the “travel’AIR” project was born, the photographs of which were later published by The New York Times (USA), Die Zeit (Germany), Il Post (Italy) and many other news and photography portals. “travel’AIR” series photographs were shown by Eurocontrol (Belgium, 2013), Prospekt Photo Gallery (Vilnius, 2014), Auckland Photography Festival (New Zealand, 2015), KievFotoCom (Ukraine, 2016), Fotonoviembre (Tenerife, Spain, 2017), Nuit de la Photo (Switzerland, 2019), InterPhoto (Poland, 2019), Photaumnales (France, 2020), Kaunas Photography Gallery (2021), KKKC (Klaipėda, 2022). that a camera can be used to depict the human relationship with aviation in airports and airplanes. This is how the idea of the “travel’AIR” project was born, the photographs of which were later published by The New York Times (USA), Die Zeit (Germany), Il Post (Italy) and many other news and photography portals. “travel’AIR” series photographs were shown by Eurocontrol (Belgium, 2013), Prospekt Photo Gallery (Vilnius, 2014), Auckland Photography Festival (New Zealand, 2015), KievFotoCom (Ukraine, 2016), Fotonoviembre (Tenerife, Spain, 2017), Nuit de la Photo (Switzerland, 2019), InterPhoto (Poland, 2019), Photaumnales (France, 2020), Kaunas Photography Gallery (2021), KKKC (Klaipėda, 2022). that a camera can be used to depict the human relationship with aviation in airports and airplanes. This is how the idea of the “travel’AIR” project was born, the photographs of which were later published by The New York Times (USA), Die Zeit (Germany), Il Post (Italy) and many other news and photography portals. “travel’AIR” series photographs were shown by Eurocontrol (Belgium, 2013), Prospekt Photo Gallery (Vilnius, 2014), Auckland Photography Festival (New Zealand, 2015), KievFotoCom (Ukraine, 2016), Fotonoviembre (Tenerife, Spain, 2017), Nuit de la Photo (Switzerland, 2019), InterPhoto (Poland, 2019), Photaumnales (France, 2020), Kaunas Photography Gallery (2021), KKKC (Klaipėda, 2022). whose photographs were later published by The New York Times (USA), Die Zeit (Germany), Il Post (Italy), and many other news or photography portals and publications. “travel’AIR” series photographs were shown by Eurocontrol (Belgium, 2013), Prospekt Photo Gallery (Vilnius, 2014), Auckland Photography Festival (New Zealand, 2015), KievFotoCom (Ukraine, 2016), Fotonoviembre (Tenerife, Spain, 2017), Nuit de la Photo (Switzerland, 2019), InterPhoto (Poland, 2019), Photaumnales (France, 2020), Kaunas Photography Gallery (2021), KKKC (Klaipėda, 2022). whose photographs were later published by The New York Times (USA), Die Zeit (Germany), Il Post (Italy), and many other news or photography portals and publications. “travel’AIR” series photographs were shown by Eurocontrol (Belgium, 2013), Prospekt Photo Gallery (Vilnius, 2014), Auckland Photography Festival (New Zealand, 2015), KievFotoCom (Ukraine, 2016), Fotonoviembre (Tenerife, Spain, 2017), Nuit de la Photo (Switzerland, 2019), InterPhoto (Poland, 2019), Photaumnales (France, 2020), Kaunas Photography Gallery (2021), KKKC (Klaipėda, 2022).
in 2013 the book “travel’AIR” about air travelers was published. in 2023 a book of the “A-SPOT” part is planned to be published with the financing of the Lithuanian Council of Culture.
