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Valdis Brauns was born in 1945 in Ugale Village, Ventspils District. He has been engaged in photography field since the age of 21. Brauns has taken part in 282 exhibitions, has been granted 142 awards. In 1978, at World Press Photo in Holland, he was presented the golden medal "The Golden Eye" for his work "The Rain of Happiness". The artist's works have been exhibited not only in his homeland, but also far beyond its limits, his works have been published in various annual photography books as well as they are a part of many museum and private collections.
The art scientist Janis Borgs about Valdis Brauns: "Art photography of Valdis Brauns is explicitly poetic and inspired by sensible humanism. Its message and pictorialness is kindred to a poet expression. Also here, in the foreground, it is not the documentalism as if chartacteristic to photography, but rather lirical metaphores, romantic symbolism, elegies of fine moods."
