Black and White

Presentation

Kyriakos KAZIRAS

Parrains - Invités,Photographs

Kyriakos KAZIRAS is a Franco-Greek professional photographer living in France.
Born in Greece, he developed a passion for photography and painting from an early age, thanks to the influence of his two grandfathers, one a painter and the other a keen photographer.
He fell in love with the wilderness, the light and the animals. He travelled to the most remote corners of the planet, from the African plains to the polar lands. But he doesn’t see himself as an adventurer or explorer.
All his work is meticulously prepared in advance, like a storyboard. Each of his photographs is a painting that plays on light and shadow. He readily admits that he was inspired by Edgar REITZ’s film Heimat, in which every shot was composed like a photograph.

Exposition

2025 1 | COSEC

Africa and the Arctic, two universes that oppose each other but that are photographically inseparable. The landscapes are grandiose, the wildlife is wild, the lighting is sometimes soft, sometimes intense. I work to the extreme of the two spectrums – deep blacks and sparkling whites – without losing the detail of the black fur of the panther and the white hairs of the polar bear in the print. The aim is the same: to magnify nature and wildlife, and to evoke emotion in the viewer. Over the years, my optimism has waned and my work has become darker. If two animals as different as the polar bear and the black panther can live together on the same Earth and convey the same emotions to visitors, then despite their differences, human beings can live together.