Antanas Sutkus (Bilingual edition) - The Sweet Life [of Nomenklatura]

Hidden away for decades, Sutkus’ bleak photos of everyday life contrast with his authorized photographs of the Lithuanian Communist Party

For 25 years, Antanas Sutkus (born 1939) photographed the Communist Party of Lithuania. The Sweet Life combines revealing, contradictory images of the inner life of communism with the glitz with which the party celebrated itself.