29 April] 1903 – 27 August 1991) was a Lithuanian journalist, poet, writer, traveler, filmmaker, diplomat, and photographer who pioneered radio journalism and artistic photography in interwar Lithuania.

29 April] 1903 in the village of Laukminiškiai [lt] (present-day Kupiškis district), then belonging to the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire.

The family also would raise Kazys Babickas, a lieutenant colonel of the Lithuanian Army, and Unė Babickaitė, an actress.

In 1920 Babickas began attending the Juozas Balčikonis Gymnasium, where he participated in the Meno kuopa literary society.

[6] However, due to a lack of funds to continue his education, Babickas became an art and literature teacher at the Jurbarkas Saulė Gymnasium [lt].

Babickas often hosted shows for children, where he would talk about Lithuanian folklore, legends, as well as excerpts from the works of various writers.

In prose, Babickas wrote Vakar (1931), considered a work of romantic nationalism,[4] for which he was awarded the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union Prize.

He exhibited his photographs in the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in 1937, for which he was awarded a gold medal.

[3] After Lithuania gained the Vilnius region in 1939, Babickas went there as a correspondent to write about and take pictures of the city,[3] which propelled his fame.

In 1949 Babickas settled down in Rio de Janeiro, where he actively participated in Lithuanian émigré cultural organizations.

In Canada, from 1950 to 1965, Babickas was secretary of the Lithuanian Embassy in Brazil, head of the culture department, and press attaché.

[3] Babickas's positive expressions about the death of Stalin in 1953 put him on the front pages of a Rio de Janeiro daily newspaper.