honorable mention
Julia Anna Gospodarou greece
title
Black Hope
The motif of the bright light, even if it covers an infinitesimal area of the image and is surrounded by darkness, being the last light before total darkness, is intended as the most important element in the story: light as hope, black as driven force that guides me towards the light. Together with the architectural object used as subject they form a language to communicate with the viewer.
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
Black Hope started as a light and volume study long before the decision I made to create a series with this subject. It started as an impulse to study the extremes of light and shadow and it became a series on the subconscious exploration of dark tones and how far this can be extended before photography isn't possible anymore. It is an exploration based on visual elements taken from my professional world as an architect, elements used to express my inner world and my life experiences, to communicate my feelings to the outer world and to translate them so the viewer can understand them. Intended as symbols, the images in this series have the same meaning and goal as Stieglitz' Equivalents: to use the subject in order to create an equivalence between the inner world of the artist and the meaning the resulted images has for the viewer.The motif of the bright light, even if it covers an infinitesimal area of the image and is surrounded by darkness, being the last light before total darkness, is intended as the most important element in the story: light as hope, black as driven force that guides me towards the light. Together with the architectural object used as subject they form a language to communicate with the viewer.
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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