Bill Gekas

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Bill Gekas (* 1973 in Melbourne ) is an Australian photographer who specializes in the visual arts and portrait photography .

He has been married since 2000. Their daughter Athena is the focus of many of his photographs.

life and work

Bill Gekas originally comes from the IT industry and started out in photography as a purely self-taught . In 2010, he began a project that showed his daughter in scenes modeled on old masters' paintings . Three years later, the photographs found recognition and were henceforth published worldwide in numerous magazines, newspapers and other media formats. Bill Gekas describes the project as ongoing and releases new scenes regularly.

Most famous publication

"Pleiadian," April 2012

Exhibitions

  • Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards 2011–2015 KL, Malaysia (Group finalist exhibition)
  • National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015, Canberra, Australia (Group finalist exhibition)
  • AddOn 2012–2014, Sydney, Australia (Group Exhibition)
  • Fremantle Portrait Prize, Fremantle, Western Australia (Group finalist exhibition)

Awards

  • National Photographic Portrait Price 2015 (finalist)     
  • International Loupe Awards 2013 (1st place portrait)  
  • Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards (finalist years -2011,2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
  • PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris, 2014. (Gold Award) 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About. In: Bill Gekas Photography. Retrieved April 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ In 2013, the Internet caught wind of his photo portraits of his daughter in the style of old masters — specifically Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens, Velasquez, and Christ. They look so painting-like in color and lighting that they leave viewers charmed and confounded. In: Epoch Times. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ ABC News: Dad Transforms Daughter Into Classic Art. In: ABC News. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Katharina Fleischer: Family photos in Vermeer style with pearl earring . In: Welt Online . February 21, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed April 14, 2016]).
  5. ↑ A very young Old Master: Beautiful pictures of girl, five, transformed into a living Baroque painting by her photographer father. In: Mail Online. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards KLPA Photo Awards. In: Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards KLPA Photoawards. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  7. ^ National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015: Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery. In: National Portrait Gallery calendar. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Bill Gekas Photography Blog: GOLD! International Loupe Awards 2012 ... In: billgekas.blogspot.de. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  9. ↑ PX3 - Winners. (No longer available online.) In: www.px3.fr. Archived from the original on January 5, 2017 ; accessed on April 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.px3.fr
personal data
SURNAME Gekas, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia