Nortigo 1 – Experience Music Project 2016
‘Nortigo’ is an exercise in shifting points of view as a gesture to reveal new and interesting information, compositions and feelings from spaces designed to form tangible connections between above and below, by looking straight up towards the ceiling, atrium or sky. The progression from indoor to outdoor spaces supplements the introvert/extrovert design polarity, while the pairing of classical buildings with modern, postmodern and cosmogenic architecture allows for comparative viewing experiences and a diverse showcase of architectural typologies.
The image is part of the project ‘Integral Lens – a multi-perspectival approach to the study and representation of the built environment’, sponsored by the Fulbright Artist Scholarship Award in affiliation with the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Statistic: 9,600 miles flying, 4,200 miles driving, 1,300 miles public commuting, 750,000 steps walking, 12,000 still images taken, 150 locations from 12 cities, 142 days on the road.
Terrain Vague 1 – South Beach Miami 2016
‘Terrain vague’ is a series of cityscapes that transmit polar feelings of intimacy and anonymity, undefined and memorable, characteristic of this postmodern metropolitan condition. A threshold urban state blurring the intentional with the accidental, the obsolete with the regenerated, the natural with the man-altered.
The series combines fine art, architectural and urban photography genres.
The image is part of the project ‘Integral Lens – a multi-perspectival approach to the study and representation of the built environment’, sponsored by the Fulbright Artist Scholarship Award in affiliation with the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Statistic: 9,600 miles flying, 4,200 miles driving, 1,300 miles public commuting, 750,000 steps walking, 12,000 still images taken, 150 locations from 12 cities, 142 days on the road.
AQAL Views 1 – Lower Manhattan 2015
‘AQAL Views’ is a series of urban waterscapes; blurred waterscapes and moving skies meet building silhouettes and auxiliary structures in a merging dance between the perpetual and the ephemeral. In the integral lexicon, ‘AQAL’ means an “all quadrant, all level matrix of reality”, and points to the cross-cultural fact that all humans have 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-person perspectives, and that all humans wake, dream, and sleep. We all live in “AQAL space” and such is our viewing.
The image is part of the project ‘Integral Lens – a multi-perspectival approach to the study and representation of the built environment’, sponsored by the Fulbright Artist Scholarship Award in affiliation with the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Statistic: 9,600 miles flying, 4,200 miles driving, 1,300 miles public commuting, 750,000 steps walking, 12,000 still images taken, 150 locations from 12 cities, 142 days on the road.
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Pygmalion Karatzas
Greece
https://www.pygmalionkaratzas.com
Pygmalion Karatzas studied Architecture with an M.Sc. in Urban Design, and practiced architecture for 12 years. Since 2013 he is focusing on architectural and fine art photography, producing a portfolio of 250+ architectural and artistic projects from Europe, USA and Middle East. His images are regularly featured in international media, have received 74 distinctions from leading photographic competitions, and the Fulbright Artist Scholarship Award. Divisare Atlas of Architecture ranks him among the top 100 architectural photographers worldwide. In affiliation with professor Mark DeKay, their paper on a multi-perspectival approach to architectural photography was presented at the 3rd Integral European Conference. Through photojournalistic reportages, collaborations with architectural firms, as well as self-initiated projects, he exhibits his passion and dedication to the study, representation and dissemination of the built environment and its broader role as a cultural asset.