them for a portrait. By contrast, in Amalias Street 5, she focuses on the inhabitants of some apartments in Riga. Off the beaten track of the picturesque Old Town, with its extensive restoration, she provides an undisguised view on the current state of flux in Latvia since its integration into the European Union. Among photographers of the former Soviet bloc countries, Ruka shares her documentary-anthropological approach with Antanas Sutkus and Boris Mikhailov; internationally with those of the Americans Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Documentary films about Ruka Photo - Inta Ruka – documentary film by Arvīds Krievs, Latvia The photographer from Riga – documentary film by Maud Nycander, Mantaray film, for Swedish Television 2009 References 1958 births Living people 20th-century Latvian women artists 21st-century Latvian women artists 20th-century women photographers 21st-century women photographers Artists from Riga Latvian photographers