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personal work
www.costadimas.com
This website comprises representative works from my art practice, both recent and from the past (see archives). The majority of my work is inspired by the street-photograpy tradition and the work of the pictorialists. I am exploring ways in which every day moments can be used to create art works that speak of the immediate and unpredictable experience of everyday life, but are informed by contemporary cultural and social considerations.
Photomonomania is a website that consists of a photo-blog to satisfy an incessant and compulsive obsession with taking photographs. This is a year-long project that captures people in the streets of Hong Kong every day, then posting a single photo on a daily basis. The entire body of work comprises of images that have been taken whilst walking and were shot from the hip, without looking through the viewfinder. It is both a documentary exploration as well as a candid portrait of Hong Kong people in the second decade after the hand over to China, after more than a century of British colonial rule. It is also a photographic experiment, to capture a portrait whilst walking and by using camera settings in manual mode and with absolute minimum depth of field at the same time using a lens of normal focal length to isolate individuals in the crowded streets and shooting in vertical mode which further restricts the angle of coverage.
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curatorial work
Artcue Projects is a platform for launching curatorial and art management related projects as well as showcase some of the projects that I have been involved with in the past in a variety of curatorial capacities including curator, assistant curator, project manager, designer and photographer.