Panos Kokkinias

• Born July 4, 1965 in Athens, Greece• Lives and works in Athens, Greece

EDUCATION

• 2002 University of Derby, School of Art, England, Ph.D. Photography.

• 1994-96 Yale University School of Art, USA, MFA Photography.

• 1991-93 School of Visual Arts, New York, BFA Photography.

• 1986-89 Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Photography Dept.

• Influences: He was the student of Gergory Crewdson and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.

Yeah!

Gregory Crewdson

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

SELECTED AWARDS

• 2000 State Scholarships Foundation.

• 1996 Ward Cheney Award, Yale University.

• 1995 Yale School of Art Scholarship.

• 1995 Onassis Foundation Scholarship.

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• 2007 Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.

Xippas gallery, Athens, Greece.

• 2006 Findings, in Present Futur d’Artissima 13, Lingotto Fiere, Turin, Italy.

• 2005 Human Nature, International Airport, Athens, Greece.

• 2004 Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.

• 2003 F1, 365 Art Project, Athens, Greece.

• 2001 Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece.

• 1998 Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece.

• 1993 Photohoros Gallery, Athens, Greece.

“These images are saturated with a Kafkaesque sense of entrapment but also a feeling of disenchantment and futility, solitude and melancholy that seems to point to an underlying contemporary ennui or dissatisfaction with the world at large”

- Phaidon Press Limited 2006

WORKING METHOD - CAPTURE

• Shoots with at 4x5 Sinar P2 and scans the negatives

• He uses has used digital backs but he says that he doesn’t get a large enough file that way.

• Digital Back = 180MB file = 24”x30” max print

• Scanned 4x5 negative = 500MB File

WORKING METHOD - LIGHTING

• Mostly uses available light• Occasionally use reflectors• Rarely uses electronic flash

WORKING METHOD – IMAGE MANIPULATION

• Scans with no color profile- He says that this give him a very soft image- Then does all tonal adjustments in Photoshop

• Photoshop workflow is relatively simple- Contrast, color, sharpening- Saturation and perspective Issues- Sometimes some reconstruction by adding or subtracting

elements

• Color is a critical part of preproduction - He is very conscious of the color of his model and how it relates

to the environment- Very little color manipulation goes on in postproduction