Tag: Australia
Bottled History
Pour yourself a cup of coffee, sit back and relax.
Ray Gascoigne has been around boats his whole life, as a shipwright, a merchant sailor, and now as a ship builder on the smallest dry dock there is: a bottle. This short film, by Smith Journal and Melbourne-based production studio Commoner, picks through the wood chips to tell the story of a craft honed over 60 years, and the man behind it. A step-by-step account of the process was featured in Smith Journal volume six.
Portraits Of A Daughter In The Style Of The Old Masters
Bill Gekas of Melbourne, Australia says that he’s a completely self-taught photographer and learned the basics of his craft back in the days of 35mm film photography. He pays homage to the Old Masters of classic paintings, including artists like Vemeer and Rembrandt using his five-year-old daughter as the model.
His photographs prove that he is a Master in his own right.
Using various models, including his five-year-old daughter, Gekas has brilliantly re-imagined the masters, replicating the lighting style for which they are famous. The so-called Rembrandt lighting is characterised by strong window light falling on one side of the subject’s face and body, producing shadows amid a rich glow. Gekas uses artificial light to simulate the admired window-lighting effect.
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