Text engl., lithuanian. - Dovydėnas is a native of Lithuania – the majority of his career he spent in the United States. After the soviet occupation of Lithuania he and his family was forced to emigrate first to Germany, and then to the United States. He studied photography at the Rhode Island school of design in Providence, and at the Dept. of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Since 1968 he has been working as a freelance photographer. - This is a catalog of a photo exhibition by Jonas Dovydenas in Vilnius in 2002. The images were made in the second decade of Lithuanian independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Thus, today, they already show a country the way it was, a country that has moved on and changed. The author's stated goal was "...to maintain a truthful vision of my native land. My purpose is neither to condemn nor flatter - only to praise in my own way."