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Idea of Art Photography, methods of work, set and model direction, experimentation and more.
Excerpts from professional texts by Steve J. Drakos:

     STEVE J DRAKOS ARTIST STATEMENT
   “My photography is in no uncertain terms a spiritual art. It is dramatic, visceral as the ancient Hellenic theatre, supernatural as an Orthodox rite. I create matter for the spirit through scenes of the European architectural tradition and pieces of its landscape, experimentations of naked life force without compromise and display of power through bodies in high styling. I avoid as much as possible shooting in studio, I rarely use black and white, I prefer real places seen as frames of a situation in progress… I have always noticed that the relaxed atmosphere on set gives poor results, while the tension renders well: I tell the models they are the actresses and actors of my movie, I immerse them in an emotional state of interior contrast that they must interpret, I make them sweat and get nervous so that they give real expressions, I actually expose them to heat and cold, I incite them to hate, desire and fear each other, I want them to defy the lens while I am watching them like cats closed against a corner and I shoot their reactions. I cannot confess all the things that I have in my mind, I just try to plan and deliver visually some parts of them acting on the attrition of the set, on the choices of post-production and of printing, on the personal taste for the refinement and originality of the colour which I consider the true achievement of the artist, like the goldsmiths manipulate and chisel precious materials of the Earth in their laboratory. Photography is a no man's land where the bravest dare to experiment: who dares wins.”

STEVE J. DRAKOS - GENERAL CONDUCT OF WORK
-the point of Photography,
-the theme of interest of your own set,
-the idea, its components, associations, contrasts,
-the sense and the creation of the set,
-the choice and the use of the location,
-the positioning of lights in relation to the theme of interest,
-entering of the subject in the environment and in the mood,
-angles of shooting, action, provocation, reaction in the photographic work.
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