Where Photography meets Art…

Fanis Logothetis is a very talented photographer, visual artist and filmmaker based in Athens, Greece with interests in exhibitions in Greece and abroad as well as at video art festivals. He has worked in Greek documentary productions and foreign filmmakers. His first directorial attempt named «ost-original soundtrack» was proved to be very successful.

Fanis’ works have a special beauty, to awaken the soul of the viewer. The observer is observed, the subject changes sight and dimension, the viewer enters another world, questions arise, conveyed messages, awe, infinite emotions… memories…

Here below, you may travel in space and time through some of Fanis’ photographs and enjoy two of his creatively videos.

Fanis Logothethis Links:
www.photographystudio.gr/
https://vimeo.com/flogo

Photography

Traditional coffee shops in Athens

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Varvakios Centre in Athens, Greece

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Born in Athens in the mid 70s, studied photography and visual arts (Focus 1993-1996, ESP 1998-1999) and attended workshops in photography,videography and music.

Courses on various software like Photoshop, Aperture, Final cut and more helped to professionalize and analyze the workflow methods.

Worked as an external partner on newspapers, magazines and specialized on still life photography, portraits, books for upcoming models. Except working for companies an doing catalogues one of his most favorite shootings is for concerts and live bands.

As a freelancer the variety of jobs and opportunities are many in the field. Football teams and pre-election campaigns as well as commercials has been some of his work .
Being an artist and a creative mind since the 90s he participated in many exhibitions and festivals around the world and curated some workshops and group exhibitions.

Music and moving images was always fascinated him. Videoart and documentary was the next logical step. Besides the participation in festivals with some videoart and video-performances, documentary came in his life first as member of a cinematography team and then as a director and producer. In 2012 he directed his first feature documentary named: ’’ Ost-original soundtrack’’ that was screened to the greek cinemas as long as many Greek and foreign festivals.

His inspiration is the urban landscape, people and objects . Some of his pictures and articles have been published in internet as long as in magazines. He leaves in Greece and collaborates with galleries and art spaces . Studio kaufman is his workplace and his sanctuary.

 

Videos

“ArtBooks Beyond”

ArtBooks Beyond is a team of talented people based in Athens/Greece.They create Handmade Artbooks, Notebooks, Presentation Portfolios and more…
(www.facebook.com/artemisbooksbeyond)

 

Ost-original soundtrack

 

Street Photography

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And some more …

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Maria Papaefstathiou

VISUAL DESIGNER since 1996 and blogger since 2010. Living in Athens, Greece. She has been focusing her research on poster design and particularly on social poster design and portrait design. Her main poster project is a series of posters celebrating great personalities of traditional and popular culture in Greece and Jamaica. These include actors, singers, musicians, poets etc. This is an ongoing project. “I believe that design is a powerful tool that we designers can use to spark enthusiasm, change mindsets and bring positive actions to our world and our culture”. FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF GRAPHICART-NEWS.COM BLOG. She carefully curates high-quality designs, illustrations, and art, from all over the world that will teach and provoke other designers. Many consider her blog to be an exceptional educational tool. CO-FOUNDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGGAE POSTER CONTEST which was launched on December 2011, partnering, the creative activist Michael Thompson aka Freestylee. (www.reggaepostercontest.com)

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