Gina Maragoudaki is a greek photographer based in Athens. She studied piano and advanced theory of music. Metronome series is the result of her first seven years of photographing. She has constructed a bright black world where darkness spreads around her subject matter which intentionally doesn’t give the viewer much information about its origin. In […]
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The Timeless Imagery of Blade Runner
This is a cult movie that has become a major influence in pop culture over time. Before the upcoming release of Blade Runner 2049, we deliver an aesthetic analysis of Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott in 1982. The story takes place in a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, it is a striking poetic reverie on […]
Mysterious Hydroessa, Island of Marble by Anargyros Drolapas
Anargyros Drolapas is a photographer living in Athens, Greece, who studied Physics and IT. More than a profession, photography is a vital necessity to him, he pursues it since 2010 as it allows him to decompress. Anargyros has had two solo exhibitions and various group exhibitions. We’ll take a look at his series Hydroessa. He considers himself as […]
Night Landscapes by Sarah Janssen
Sarah Janssen is a German crossmedia artist and freelance photographer based in Groningen, Netherlands. After receiving a Master in Interactive Media and Envioronments, she started to use photography to explore the human visual perception of images and space, playing with light in night landscapes. She discovered photography during her bachelor studies in art/crossmedia design, and used it as […]
Appreciate the Poetic Cinematography in Trois Couleurs : Bleu
Experience watching a movie without the sound, relaying only on visuals: you’ll start to see new layers of comprehension, association of ideas… This is why Trois Couleurs : Bleu is such a meaningful movie to me. Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski in 1993, it is the first part of the three-color triptych blue/white/red that successively explores France’s motto: “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”. […]
The Fantastic Cinematography of Lost River
This dark tale of 2014 is the first work of Ryan Gosling as a director. It follows the fate of a mother and her two children, who live in a ruined Detroit. The film has a fantastic shape since the light and the scenery are both mystical. The result is a formidable aesthetic, entrusted to […]
Monty Kaplan
Javier Federico Kaplan, aka Monty Kaplan, is an Argentinian photographer and filmmaker based in Miami. He defines his style as eclectic and minimal. Eclectic in the sense that he’s always interested in capturing a specific mood, from the most upbeat, colorful pictures to dour and gloomy ones. His main concerns are always light (or lack […]
Pawel Uniatowicz
The visuals of Polish filmmaker and photographer Pawel Uniatowicz will transport you to a dream-like atmosphere. Some of his photographs are issued from his movies, and his experimental approach consists in using multiple mediums, combining analog images from his 35mm camera and sound. Watch his experimental videos, and photographs.