honorable mention
Julia Anna Gospodarou greece
title
Like A Harp's Strings
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
A study of the Pedestrian Bridge Katechaki designed by Santiago Calatrava in Athens, presented as an imaginary Concert for Harp in five parts, played at just one instrument, the bridge itself. Many of the Calatrava bridges remind of instruments with strings and generally his organic style in architecture sends the mind of the viewer towards music. The elegance, the fact that most of his bridges are cable-stayed, the asymmetrical shape of the suspending element remind all of rhythm, detail, sounds, music. Based on the fact that a shape can be associated in the mind of the viewer with sounds and taking in consideration the shape of the bridge, I imagined the orchestra as being made of different kinds of harps, by emphasizing in each image a different angle and detail of the bridge, trying to present it each time in a new way, as a different instrument, but always accentuating the part that creates the sound: the strings. This is why I added the bright streak of light on the cables, it is the sound that the wind makes when passing through the strings, creating music. I used long exposure to associate the movement of the clouds with the way sound travels.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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