Paulius Petraitis is an artist-theorist and independent curator based in Vilnius. His practice orbits around the expanded notion of photography within broader social and cultural contexts. Much of his work explores the interplay between technology and the construction of meaning, examining subjectivities encoded in machine vision and networked functionality.

Petraitis curated pioneering series of screen-based photography exhibitions, including “Blog Reblog” (2013-2014) and “Sraunus” (2010-2013), and organized the first art show on Snapchat titled “This is It/Now” (2015). More recently, he curated a site-responsive exhibition “On Photographic Beings” (2020) at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, which explored the fluid and multi-dimensional relationship between objects and images.

Petraitis published a number of artist’s books (previously under the creative alias Paul Paper), including A man with dark hair and a sunset in the background, Smoke Screen, and Contemporary Photography. He is also the editor of Too Good to be Photographed — a publication that probes the intricate nexus between failure and photography, manifested through the works of 47 artists. His books and works are held in numerous institutional collections, including libraries at MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MACBA, The International Center of Photography, Yale University, as well as Denmark Design Museum, Joan Flasch Collection, and Clark Art Institute.