honorable mention
Julia Anna Gospodarou greece
title
Catharsis
Adept of the idea that processing your photographs is at least as important as capturing them, in order to make them express your unique vision and view over the world, her work goes beyond the boundaries of traditional photography and enters the fields of imagination and of searching for a perfect world. She calls her style of photography (en)Visionography™ , an alternative name for photography, especially fine art photography, a genre that has to do much more with the vision of the artist than with the subject or how the camera captures it. Through her work she strives for perfection and aims to recreate and reinvent the world through her images.
Julia also writes fine art photography books and teaches fine art architectural photography workshops around the world. Published internationally in numerous books and magazines, her photographic work can also be seen online on the most important photography sites.
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entry description
What I aim with this series is to find a way of showing how solitude in front of the immensity of nature is able to help one get in touch with the inner self that is often ignored and suppressed in the frenzy of the day-to-day life. This is the story of a lone tree, a tree that is facing itself and is having a long and in depth conversation with his own conscience. The different images of the series, from I to V, represent different stages in its evolution and different questions that the tree has to answer in order for it to do the Catharsis, to go through this process of purification of the soul and mind in order to be reborn spiritually.about the photographer
Architect with a Master degree and International Award-Winning B&W Fine Art photographer, with high distinctions in the most important photography competitions worldwide (IPA, SWPA, PX3, IFPA, B&W Spider Awards), Julia lives in Athens, but considers herself a citizen of the world and this molded her art and life philosophy. Julia has an equal passion for architecture and photography, practicing both with the same enthusiasm and joy. In her architectural career she has worked at the most important constructions realized in Greece over the last years and collaborated with famous names of Greek and world architecture. Interested in photography from a very young age, she is used to thinking in images and considers them even more important than words. Julia is mostly known for her B&W long exposure architectural photography, which is also the genre that speaks most to her artistic sensibility.Adept of the idea that processing your photographs is at least as important as capturing them, in order to make them express your unique vision and view over the world, her work goes beyond the boundaries of traditional photography and enters the fields of imagination and of searching for a perfect world. She calls her style of photography (en)Visionography™ , an alternative name for photography, especially fine art photography, a genre that has to do much more with the vision of the artist than with the subject or how the camera captures it. Through her work she strives for perfection and aims to recreate and reinvent the world through her images.
Julia also writes fine art photography books and teaches fine art architectural photography workshops around the world. Published internationally in numerous books and magazines, her photographic work can also be seen online on the most important photography sites.
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