Greek photographer Nasos Karabelas experiments with outlines, shapes, and edges, exploring particularly “the possibilities of deformation of the human body.”
He frequently uses long exposure that helps him traverse the traditional approach to portraiture. Blurry lines bathed in heavy shadows “reflect the ambiguous and unstable […] thoughts that constitute the subject of his photography.”
While photography is generally acting as a way of dematerializing reality into emotions and ideas, Karabelas’ work is one that materializes sensations into tangible visuals. The artist continuously presents us with an array of psychic elements, including certain mental conditions, in a perpetual effort of “discovering the various forms of psychosynthesis.”
“[My photography] presents a variety of emotional loads within a world that is as ambiguous as our own,” he mentions, specifying that the dreamlike property of his works is almost necessary to “depict forms and frame emotions.”
Karabelas is, in a way, a metaphysical poacher, trapping and collecting feelings within his photographs, but at the same time, he becomes their caretaker, observing, exploring, and rediscovering their world. “With the idea of movement continually imprinted on his photographs, the people appear as if enclosed within a new reality […], a dimension that belongs to the world of dreams and chaos.”
Read our “Metamorphosis” issue in full
In the 3rd issue of RAWGUE., 24 visual artists and poets share a common pursuit: authenticity over perfection. The subtle art of becoming, the passage through various stages of artistic contemplation, the ever-shifting states of mind, feeling, and medium, or the act of altering reality to underline emotion or meaning – metamorphosis.
We’re a team of writers using our craft to spotlight art in its most honest form. RAWGUE. started as a bi-monthly editorial experiment where each issue’s theme is dictated by the submitted work, thus removing editorial bias from the equation and preserving a more raw approach. We focus on all forms of poetry: written, photographed, painted, drawn, and filmed.
