Alnis Stakle (1975, Latvia) is Latvian photographer and the Professor of photography at the Rigas Stradins University (LV). He holds PhD in art education from Daugavpils University (LV). His work brings a critical approach to questions of visual representation of collective and private trauma, loss, memories and the materiality of the medium of photography. Working both documentary and conceptually his works disclose how sociopolitical ideas can be examined through both fact and fiction as well as the interplay of collective and subjective experience. Ideas of autoethnography and psychogeography are an essential part of his art-based research approach in art. Since 1998, his works has been exhibited widely, including solo & group exhibitions at the Latvian Museum of Photography, Latvian National Museum of Art, Modern Art Oxford (GB), Art Center ‘Winzavod’ in Moscow (RU), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires (AR), Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR in Brussells (BE). Alnis Stakle works are represented in private and public collections such as Yale University Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, New Haven (USA), Rijksmuseum Library, Amsterdam (NL), Latvia Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, Latvian Photography Museum, Mark Rothko Art Center in Daugavpils (LV), The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection, RIBA British Architectural Library (UK), Thessalonica Museum of Photography (GR). His work has been awarded various grants and cultural prizes, such as the Sony World Photography Award architecture section (2011) and Creative section (2022), Artist of the year at DongGang International Photo Festival (2021), winner photobook competition at FOTO WIEN (2019), New East Photo Prize by Calvert 22 foundation (2018), shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards (2017), nominated for Discoveries Award at Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles (2017). His works has been published in British Journal of Photography, GUP, Wired, Camera Austria, Membrana, Gente di Fotografia, EYEMAZING, IMAGO, OVER, OjodePez, Archivo, Leica Fotografie International, ect.