Comments on: zisis kardianos – feastday

By: gumanow

gumanow — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:19:16 +0000

Zisis,
Just found your essay here. And how great it is to see here. Congrats. Extremely impressive essay.

By: Nasos Leontaridis

Nasos Leontaridis — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:29:55 +0000

Very good series. The photos highlight the feasts with a very personal way and emotion comes to raise memories from the past. Since I’m Greek too I have this aroma of feasts and I’m pleased to see such a work.
The bad thing is that there’s no 25, 26…. photo

Regards,

By: mimi mollica

mimi mollica — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:28:08 +0000

Dear Zisis,
I find your images really beautiful, some, only some, might have been already seen, but the overall is a very beautiful tale.
Thanks

By: shutterlight

shutterlight — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:57:20 +0000

I’ll always remember this as the first photo essay I viewed here, and my first comment. Very electric and moving work. I liked it a lot. I may have learned a little more about Greece today than I ever have at once before. Thank you for capturing it all.

By: kathleen fonseca

kathleen fonseca — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:59:05 +0000

Zisis

¨I feel the camera as part of my heart, an extension of my intuition¨

you said it better than i could have since this was exactly my reaction to this essay..it is born of love, intimate knowledge of the good, the bad and the indifferent of where you live. Panos said once ¨shoot your neighborhood first¨..but for so many our own neighborhood is steeped in so many memories and experiences that we are unable to step outside of ourselves and see the magic that is all around. You have that gift and as Tom Hyde says, you speak a subtle poetry as if to a lover, whispered gently, adoringly, with a tear in the eye and a smile on the lips.

Congratulations..a perfectly beautiful essay..

Best
Kathleen

By: tom hyde

tom hyde — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:35:49 +0000

“solid” that is.

By: tom hyde

tom hyde — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:35:02 +0000

I’ve always believed it is best to simply ask before launching accusations based on a guess but then, I’m just an old Virginia boy and we tend to be sensitive about these things. Anthony, good on ya for the apology though and I agree, it is just sold good work here.

By: jenny lynn walker

jenny lynn walker — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:54:01 +0000

“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside… (than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is). Bertrand Russell

Had to return because I feel this in some of the moments in this essay. Thank you. : )

By: Greg Dallis

Greg Dallis — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:44:32 +0000

Very nice work my friend

wanted more… :)

By: Frank Michael Hack

Frank Michael Hack — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:58:23 +0000

Wonderful. Very nice work. Congratulations and all the best,

Frank

By: Anthony R.Z.

Anthony R.Z. — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:06:59 +0000

david alan harvey

David, first of all I am very glad to have a chance to wish you Happy Birthday!!! I am very rarely shure of anything:))… well, I just looked one more time… OK, I might be wrong, just some subjects looked like have been layered from other photos because the lack of shadows and strange, even irrelevant expresions… if I am wrong about this (and probably I am) this body of work is very very good…

Zisis Kardianos

I think burning and dodging, most of the time, is even must for digital B&W presentations… seems I was wrong about manipulations… appologize… and as I have already said, apart from my suspicions, the work is very very good indeed…

good light for all

By: Zisis Kardianos

Zisis Kardianos — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:59:52 +0000

Matt, about your question. Some of the images were published together with my writing on the feast of Agios Simios in Mesologi, one of the most enduring popular feast in Greece of religious and pagan origins.
If I had a choice to publish on printed media without text, then I would have prefer it.

By: Zisis Kardianos

Zisis Kardianos — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:29:19 +0000

Apologies to all for my late response. I just realized that it has been published.
Thank you all and each one of you for your comments and encouragement to explore the series further.
My thanks to David and Diego for publishing the work here.
Anthony, I have only used burn/dodge and different filters during bw conversion to render tonality as I thought fit for each image. If this is considered digital manipulation, then I’m guilty as charged.

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:47:09 +0000

ANTHONY RZ

i am not opposed to digital manipulations in some kinds of photography, but i would be surprised if it was done here…for this type of work , i always assume straight shot and given his mentors , i would also assume straight shot…are you sure? where?

By: Anthony R.Z.

Anthony R.Z. — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:22:08 +0000

It’s very obvious that not so few of these images are digitally manipulated… I don’t consider digital manipulations being photography…

By: srinivaskuruganti

srinivaskuruganti — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:02:44 +0000

These are very nice photos Zisis.
Beautiful light, beautiful composition.

Congratulations.

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By: Herve

Herve — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:56:41 +0000

Very classic photography, I mean that in the sense that this type of classicism came about not so long ago, from the likes of Abbas, Economopoulos, Garcia-Rodero more lately, and a few others. So, I just cannot BUT like it, it’s a great pleasure to see your work on that subject, yet I think a few ones, and especially the vertical framed pictures are not as revealing or outstanding as the others.

Never mind, a big thumb up and many thanks for the offering!

PS: Jim, self-penance is over? :-))). Yes, nice to see you had gone but not left, or left but not gone…

By: peter grant

peter grant — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:12:25 +0000

I also felt connected to your images from frame 1, Zisis. Feel most moved by this sort of photography. Catching the natural beauty of the human spirit. I am also an amateur photographer who has been doing a similar thing, and can see, recognize the authenticity in your images immediately. Also, as Bob mentioned, I saw the last image as being different; cinematic in its inspiration for me also.

Peaked through your web site and love your images. Going back for more.
You’ve inspired me.

Peter.

By: Dimitri Mellos

Dimitri Mellos — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:01:02 +0000

Zisi,

what a delight to discover here a greek photographer whom I had never heard of, and who has such wonderful work as you do! Sure, heavily influenced by Economopoulos, but so what? What matters is that, even for someone who is familiar with such feasts (coming from Greece myself), you manage to take the everyday and make it magical, which is what photography is all about. Well done and thank you. And thanks to Burn.