Welcome

My last three portfolios made me realize why I got into photography. Here they are. Seascapes, Femscapes and Dolls.

What I Do

My photographs are an attempt to capture the beauty of light. The lines, curves and patterns it creates on what would otherwise be black. Some are silhouettes. I love silhouettes. I try to convey a certain mood into my pictures. In order to do that, I often shoot out of focus, just enough to get a dream or memory feeling.
What is for sure is that I have a passion for light!

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Who I Am

My name is Nikos Kontonatsios. I live and work in Volos, Greece. Feel free to contact me at
nikos@mypassion4light.com

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Dolls

I have always felt that my previous portfolio, Femscapes was incomplete, and I have been looking for subjects to finish it. After searching for quite some time, I came across a large white hat in a shop in Thessaloniki. I bought it. I don't have access to any models so there was noone to wear the hat. Two years after buying the hat, I thought I'd try to get a vitrine doll, which I did. This portfolio, Dolls, is the result. In many ways it is the sequel of Femscapes.

Femscapes

Femscapes is an attempt to capture the pure beauty that comes from light falling on a female body. These are photos of little statuettes. I came across one in a trip to Germany and I felt it could be the the main subject of Femscapes. It is perfect white, somehow idealised, but it reflects light in the way I feel it should. I also used other stauettes as subjects, mainly for the curves.

Seascapes

Seascapes was not planned. It just happened. Looking at my photographs I realized I tended to shoot various subjects against a calm sea and the sun, capturing some very bright highlights. Despite sharing such common elements, the photographs do not all reflect the same mood. In some of them there is a sense of peaceful melancholy, in others there is an urge to sail away, also carrying a melancholic message in a way. After all, the sea has so many faces and can invoke so many different feelings. I never intended to capture any particular emotion. I tried to capture the images I came across the best way I could. Whatever emotion is in the photographs was there to be felt. I just photographed it.
All the photographs are black and white. Color would be far too distracting.

Say Hello.

You can contact me using the form below, or directly at
nikos@mypassion4light.com