Gintautas Trimakas' works from the 1980s were a stimulus to revisit the approach to photography which saw a photograph as a direct footprint of reality frozen in time, and was therefore identical with the objective reality and the truth. In his work, Trimakas de-integrated the uniformity of the image, thus shattering the previously unchallenged links between photography and reality.

The photograph Away from Home (Radio)from the series 'Planes' is dominated by an antique radio set, while the other details, a portrait photograph, a patterned bedspread and a bed frame, are just extras. Trimakas photographed it from the front, thereby avoiding any illusion of depth and volume in the picture. He does so to show that he is interested in how these objects form a plane, a façade. The picture is obviously made out of two shots. This implies that the footprint of reality can be edited, merged or manipulated, resulting in relative images. He plays with his ability to recreate reality: Two shots are aptly merged, thus giving the illusion of a cognisable object; while at the same time the fact of overlapping images is not disguised, thus explicating the fragmentary nature of the image and the fictitious whole.