Book Presentation, Talk & Signing, Andrew Miksys: BAXT

Please join us for an evening with Lithuania based photographer Andrew Miksys who is presenting his new self published photobook BAXT – Twenty Years Photographing Roma Communities in Lithuania, in our Café Bar and Bookshop.


On the night,  Andrew will share images and stories from BAXT. The project, whose title translates as “luck, fate, fortune,” brings together early portraits, new photographs, and experiences of collaboration and controversy. Miksys will discuss the expanded 2025 edition, questions of representation and ethics, and what it means to sustain a photographic dialogue across decades.

The conversation will be moderated by Dalia Al-Dujaili, an Iraqi-British writer, editor, and producer based in London, and online editor of The British Journal of Photography. She is also the author of Babylon, Albion (Saqi Books, 2025). Writer and cultural historian Laimonas Briedis, author of Vilnius: City of Strangers and contributor of an essay to the new edition of BAXT, will also join the discussion.

The talk will be followed by a book signing in the Bookshop, with copies of BAXT and a limited number of rare, out-of-print copies of DISKO available.

This event is organised in collaboration with the Lithuanian Culture Institute.

Andrew Miksys is a photographer originally from Seattle who has been based in Lithuania since the early 2000s. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Seattle Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, MO Museum, and Maureen Paley in London. He is a recipient of fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation. Andrew’s photography has appeared in publications such as DAZED, The New Yorker, Harper’s, HOTSHOE, BuzzFeed, and VICE. He has also collaborated with fashion brands including Vetements, Helmut Lang, and Marc Jacobs. Through his publishing imprint, ARÖK Books, he has released several photobooks, including DISKO (2013), a portrait of Lithuanian village discos, and TULIPS (2016), a project focused on Belarus. His most recent book, BAXT (2025), is the culmination of a long-term project documenting the Lithuanian Roma community.