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= Gunars Binde = Gunars Binde (born December 27, 1933) is a latvian photographer. He was born in the family of Janis and Emma Binde and is the oldest of their three children. From 1941 to 1950 attented Beja seven-year school and in 1957 graduated from Priekuļi Technical College of Agricultural Mechanisation as an electrician.

In 1957 Gunars began to teach himself photography. In 1964 he joined the Photo Club "Riga" and began his professional activities as a photographer. He held his first solo exhibition in 1959 at Alūksne Museum of Regional Studies and Art.

From 1964 to 1975 Binde worked as a photography teacher in Riga Secondary School of Applied Arts. From 1977 to 1994 he worked as a photographer in Dole History museum, but in 1994 started his job as a photography specialist in Latvian Ministry of Defence.

Personal life
Binde has been married three times and has four children. He had his first daugther, Ieva, with his first wife, Ilze Binde, two daugthers, Mārīte and Elīna with his second wife, Sarmīte Kviesīte. He has been married to his third wife, Tatjana, since 1993 and they have one daugther, Anna.

Achievements
In 1965 Binde was awarded a gold medal for portrait of the legendary Latvian theatre director Eduards Smiļģis at the 29th International Salon of Photography (XXIX Salón Internacional de Arte Fotográfico) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 1967 Gunars Binde received the Grand Prix at the XXV Albert I International Photo Salon in Belgium for his photograph Nude (1967).

Binde has received the distinctions AFIAP (Artiste FIAP, 1975) and EFIAP (Exellence FIAP, 1988) awarded by The International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP).

In 2009 he received the highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia - the Order of the Three Stars.

Other sources

 * Gunārs Binde: fotoalbum: [Compiler: Laima Slava; text: Alise Tīfentāle, Laima Slava; designer Juris Petraškevičs]. Rīga: Neputns, 2006. p.159
 * Binde, Gunar. No: Contemporary photographers: [Executive editor Martin Marix Evans]. New York: b.i., 1995, p.94.-95.
 * Binde, Gunārs. No: Latvijas enciklopēdija. Rīga: Valērija Belokoņa izdevniecība, 1st edition, 2002, p.675.
 * https://www.gunarsbinde.com/