Bill Gekas

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Bill Gekas (born 1973) is an Australian photographer that focuses on fine arts and portrait photography.

Married since 2000, his daughter Athena is the main focus of many of his pictures.

Bill gekas photography

Life and career

Bill Gekas Father and His 5YearOld Daughter Recreate Classic Paintings

Born in Melbourne, originally, Bill Gekas worked in the IT field and got into photography as a pure autodidact. In 2010, he started a project that showed his daughter on a set recreating paintings of the old masters.

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Three years later, these photographs began to attract more and more attention and have been printed in magazines, journals, newspapers and other formats from then on. Bill Gekas describes the project as ongoing and has been publishing new scenes regularly.

Most famous publication

"Pleiadian", April 2012

Exhibitions

Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards 2011-2015 KL, Malaysia (Group finalist exhibition)

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015, Canberra, Australia (Group finalist exhibition)

AddOn 2012-2014, Sydney, Australia (Group Exhibition)

Fremantle Portrait Prize, Fremantle, Western Australia (Group finalist exhibition)

Awards

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National Photographic Portrait Price 2015 (finalist)

International Loupe Awards 2013 (1st place portrait)

Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards (finalist years -2011,2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)

PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris, 2014. (Gold Award)

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References

Bill Gekas Wikipedia

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