Bill Gekas (born 1973) is an Australian photographer who focuses on fine arts and portrait photography. His daughter Athena is the main focus of many of his fine art photographs.[1][2][3]
Life and career edit
Born in Melbourne, Gekas originally worked in the IT field and got into photography as an autodidact. In 2010, he started a project that showed his daughter on a set recreating paintings of the Old Masters.[4] Three years later, these photographs began to attract more and more attention and have been printed in magazines, journals, newspapers and other formats from then on.[5][6][7][8]
Group exhibitions edit
- Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards 2011–2015 KL, Malaysia (finalists exhibition)[9][10]
- National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015, Canberra, Australia (finalists exhibition)[11]
- AddOn 2012–2014, Sydney, Australia[citation needed]
- Fremantle Portrait Prize, Fremantle, Western Australia (finalists exhibition)[citation needed]
Awards edit
- National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 (finalist)[citation needed]
- International Loupe Awards 2013 (1st place portrait)[citation needed]
- Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards (finalist years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)[citation needed]
- Px3 Prix De La Photographie Paris, 2014 (Gold Award)[12]
References edit
- ^ Peru.com, Redacción (2 July 2014). "Niña revive las famosas obras de Vermeer y Rembrandt (FOTOS)".
- ^ 1x.com (19 October 2012). Inspiration: Ein Buch für Fotografen. dpunkt.verlag. pp. 49–. ISBN 978-3-86491-192-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Bill Gekas photographs his daughter". 23 July 2014.
- ^ "PHOTOS. Bill Gekas recrée les portraits célèbres avec sa fille de 5 ans pour modèle". 11 April 2014.
- ^ "These Aren't Your Average Snapshots: Bill Gekas' Portraits of His Daughter as Classic Paintings". ABCNews blog.
- ^ "Familienfotos im Vermeer-Stil mit Perlenohrring". Welt (German TV channel).
- ^ Lindsay Adler (15 October 2013). Creative 52: Weekly Projects to Invigorate Your Photography Portfolio. Peachpit Press. pp. 19–. ISBN 978-0-321-93491-8.
- ^ México, El Universal, Compañia Periodística Nacional. "Fotógrafo y su hija rinden homenaje a pintores clásicos".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards". Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards. Archived from the original on 6 July 2016.
- ^ "Our favourite portraits at the Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2015".
- ^ "National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015: Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery". National Portrait Gallery (Australia).
- ^ "PX3". Px3. Archived from the original on 5 January 2017.