Andrew Miksys, Disko *Signed

From 2000 to 2010, Andrew Miksys travelled the back roads of Lithuania, photographing teenagers in village discos. Most of these discos were located in Soviet-era cultural centres, where Miksys would sometimes find discarded Lenin portraits, old Soviet movie posters, gas masks, and other remnants of the Soviet Union. He became fascinated by this debris of a fallen empire and the teenagers who frequented these clubs. It seemed like the perfect backdrop for a photographic series exploring youth in Lithuania—a crumbling past and an uncertain future brought together in a single room.