Bill Gekas
Bill Gekas is an Australian photographer who focuses on fine arts and portrait photography. His daughter Athena is the main focus of many of his fine art photographs.
Life and career
Born in Melbourne, Gekas originally worked in the IT field and got into photography as an autodidact. In 2010, he started a project that showed his daughter on a set recreating paintings of the Old Masters. 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.Group exhibitions
- Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards 2011–2015 KL, Malaysia
- National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015, Canberra, Australia
- AddOn 2012–2014, Sydney, Australia
- Fremantle Portrait Prize, Fremantle, Western Australia
Awards
- National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015
- International Loupe Awards 2013
- Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards
- Px3 Prix De La Photographie Paris, 2014