Artist Igor Vasiliadis
Artist Igor Vasiliadis
Igor Vasiliadis, born in 1972 in Athens, Greece. Due to a fascist coup that took
place in Greece, he and his family moved to Russia. At the asstonishing young age
of 6 he started making photographs and developed his first Black and White film.
In 2000 he started his professional photo graphy career. Since that time he has made
over 100 magazine covers.
He loves to use old techniques and equipment with long, up to one minute
exposures, because this gives him the time to experience the soul of his models to
come out from deep inside. All vibrations of the body, all temporary emotions
and insignificant thought reflections are averaged and disappear… All the magic
of the real beauty stays and reinforces his pictures greatly.
Each beauty uncovers itself as particular
implication of eternal great substance, driving our civilization forward and caring
about it at the same time… Igor shoots directly on blackened silver plates 8x10”
activated with cadmium solts contained in emulsion. These techniques are similar to
wet plates that were used in the mids of the nineteenth century with some minor
improvements and differences. He also so metimes uses ambrotypes. For finishing he
uses scanning plates for large format prints or contact print on albumen paper.