An invitation to a photography exhibition ‘Latvia. Also mine’ by a Czech diplomat, held at the UL Botanic Garden

The exhibition will feature photographs by Czech Cultural and Consular Officer Michal Korecky. In the photos, Korecky demonstrates his vision of Latvia. Korecky worked at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Riga for 12 years and taught the Czech language at the UL Faculty of Humanities. Together with his colleagues, he founded the UL Centre of Bohemistics and Polonistics. Since the beginning of 2013, Michal Korecky has been working at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Algeria. While living in Latvia, Korecky learned the Latvian language and became acquainted with Latvia’s culture and people. Korecky spent several years travelling around Latvia and taking photographs, in which he provided an emotional look at the peculiarities of our country. The subjects chosen – the changing light of the sea and the sky, the sun reflecting in the water, patterns of butterfly wings and grass stalks – show the author’s ability to see the diversity of nature and reveal it in images permeated by mood and tonal delicacy. It is surprising that Korecky’s poetic depiction of nature is close to the insight of Latvians. The exhibition is on display from 25 March until 28 April at the Palm House of the UL Botanic Garden. Its opening ceremony on 25 March at 15:00 will be honoured by the presence of Michal Korecky himself. The UL Botanic Garden is situated at 2 Kandavas street, Pārdaugava, Riga. In March, the Botanic Garden is open from Monday to Thursday from 9:00 to 16:30, and from Friday to Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00. Starting from 1 April, the Botanic Garden will be open from 9:00 to 19:00 every day. The entrance fee is LVL 0.50 for pupils, LVL 1.00 for students and pensioners and LVL 1.50 for adults. The entry is free for pre-school age children, students and employees of the UL, boarding school students and the disabled of the I and II group. More information at www.botanika.lu.lv Translated by students of the professional study programme Translator of the University of Latvia.