00:02Visitors to the Onassis Foundation in Greece have the opportunity to discover a different lesser known artistic side of Giorgos
00:07Lanthimos.
00:09The internationally acclaimed director and multi award winning master of moving images presents his deep passion for steel photography through
00:17a major exhibition aptly titled photographs featuring a total of 182 photographs.
00:23I didn't know from the beginning that I was interested in this photography.
00:31I started to say that I had to learn that technically I had to learn that I had to move
00:38on to what I was interested in, which was the cinematographer.
00:41And slowly, slowly, through the process of the cinematographer, I had to use the photography, but it also gave me
00:49another contribution to the creation of the cinematographic film.
00:57A film, to turn home, to display it and to display it two photographs and to keep it in your
01:04hand and to look at it,
01:06has a very direct importance.
01:10It is a very direct importance, if you have said it very well.
01:12But the importance is very direct and direct in relation to other things.
01:20The exhibition on the Onassis Foundation is divided into four sections.
01:25The first three focus on the places and people featured in his films, while the fourth, presented for the first
01:31time, consists of personal black and white photographs taken in Greece.
01:34I think the most interesting thing, the most compelling thing about this show, is the notion that you have this
01:40extraordinary cinematic master.
01:44And little known is the fact that in the last five or six years, he's been using a still camera
01:49as well.
01:49He's been making his own photographs alongside the sets of his films.
01:54But most significantly, he's also been making personal work.
01:58And there is a relationship between the cinema and the still photographs.
02:02The photographic exhibition by Yorgos Lanthimos at the Onassis Foundation in Athens runs until May 17.
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