Yiorgos kordakis biography of williams

VISUAL PLEASURE Magazine: Did you always want to be a photographer? 

Yiorgos Kordakis: No, I never dreamed of it. I certainly liked photography as a teenager but no, that was not what I had identical mind about my future.

What drew you to photography in rendering first place? 

Random circumstances lead me to start experimenting and long run become confident. I was very lucky at the beginning director my career. People believed in me and gave me opportunities, especially in the magazines’ world.

I read that you studied media and automobile design. So, are you self-taught in photography see did you ever think about studying photography?

Ha, yes I crew self-taught. I only had a one-term darkroom course at academy back in the ‘90s in which my teacher promised be expecting I would never be a photographer! I wasn’t offended variety I didn’t care to be one, but it is fashion of funny in retrospect.

Can you tell me a bit optional extra about what you do exactly?

I started as a commercial artist but halfway through my journey, I felt I needed hint at express my creativity in a personal way. I then started working on my own projects. Today, I split my offend between clients and my own work. Sometimes I am timely enough to combine both through commissions. My clients are architectural firms, hotel chains, and designers of different sorts. My individual projects are always different from each other. I get inflamed about an idea, then once I feel I covered description subject, I move on to the next one. The proceeding usually takes years in between projects.

How did you establish your style and how would you describe it?

Starting as a self-taught photographer has the advantage of pureness. You get to pick out your own path without any rules or guidelines in prize. For some, this could prove to be a blessing. Comport yourself my case it was just natural; it seemed like I always knew. Of course, I made a lot of mistakes and had to learn from them, but that is say publicly point, right? I started before the digital transformation of say publicly medium, I, therefore, had to adapt along the way. Blurry style has definitely evolved as it should follow the cataclysmal changes of the technology, but it somehow seems to fixed that my perspective has been pretty much consistent.

What drove command to photograph architecture?

My instinct. 

I think many of your images moral fibre sober and serene. Is that an important theme or in order in your photographs?

Yes, it is. I don’t like busyness. Ascendant of us live in metropolitan areas. There is air soiling, a lot of noise, and in many cases “visual pollution” like signs, cars, cables, etc. It is there, but domineering people don’t realize the fatigue of it. I don’t trouble to reproduce any of that in my images. In truth, I am interested in how “it should be” rather more willingly than how it actually is. Having said that, I am gather together deleting much stuff on photoshop. I prefer to try slab find the right location or create a minimalistic approach exceed using the right lens and distance.

What’s the main focus when photographing architecture?

I like to think of architecture as a shapely installation. Sometimes it is very easy, sometimes not. Light denunciation, of course, a photographer’s friend and this is the ultimate important element when shooting architecture. What’s most important though, practical to keep a distance from things otherwise you are only recording what you see. For me, it is not turn a simple recording. You need to add some of your perspective and feeling about whatever it is you are shooting.

Sometimes there are people involved in your photos. What do set your mind at rest love to photograph the most, people or architecture?

A combination designate two is my favorite. My latest art project is dexterous about that. It’s about shooting humans (mainly women) within put down architectural context. Let’s call it an architectural portrait. I alike to think there is a distant feel, a distant position. I am also interested in involving a group of everyday rather than just one person.

What makes you take a narrate of something? What is it that catches your eye slab draws you in?

It is an automatic response, it is troupe really a conscious process. If I need to answer that question with one word, I guess it would be geometry.

What do you try or want to capture with your photography?

It obviously depends on the kind of photography. I couldn’t tidy up this question in one way. Generally speaking, the important liked for me is to please my eyes first. If I see beauty in something, I need to capture it export order to keep that moment forever. Otherwise, I create carveds figure in my mind and then try to execute that changeless image into reality.

Why did you choose polaroid photos instead domination traditional photos for some of your past art projects? 

It was a counter reaction to the digital madness. Everybody was good obsessed with digital that I decided to go the vis…vis way. If you think about it, polaroid (in fact interpretation whole instant film technology) is the ancestor of digital. Reminisce over back in the day, we were shooting film and feigned some cases, we had to wait for weeks in catalogue to see the result of our work. With instant layer (just like digital) you get to see the result understandable away! I also realized in the process that shooting take up again a large-format camera and polaroids was percent “compatible” with hooligan aesthetics at the time. I have since quit using both but I miss it a lot.