Artist Tour: Inta Ruka at the exhibition “Places Called Home”

Inta Ruka’s exhibition Places Called Home has quietly found its way into the hearts of everyone who has visited it at Fotografiska. Her photographs carry a rare sense of warmth, intimacy, and sincerity, drawing viewers into the lives, places, and stories that linger long after leaving the exhibition. Following the exceptionally warm response from our visitors, photographer Inta Ruka returns to Estonia for a special tour of her exhibition.

Between 1983 and 2008, photographer Inta Ruka photographed people in her native Latvia, capturing their lives in rooms, courtyards, and streets where everyday life unfolds. She returned to the same individuals repeatedly, working slowly and allowing trust to develop over time. The resulting photographs are not merely documentary, but preserve places, relationships, and lived experience from which a sense of belonging emerges.

On August 20, Estonia’s Day of Restoration of Independence, these photographs offer many points of recognition and reflection on the shared histories from which we come.