Fine Art nominee

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” - Rumi

‘AQAL Views’ is a series of urban waterscapes using the long exposure technique. Blurred waterscapes and moving skies meet building silhouettes and auxiliary structures in a merging dance between the perpetual and the ephemeral. 
When we put aside all the analyses and pause from all the search, we find what they refer in Zen as “the beginner’s mind”, a fresh look as if we just witnessed the wonders of this world. When we momentarily drop all we know and the anxiety of the unknown, we can rest in “one taste”, in the unifying consciousness that all are one.
Images are part of the photographic project - 'Integral Lens: an integral approaches to architectural photography’ - taken during a 5-month journey in United States awarded with the Fulbright Artist Scholarship and sponsored by the College of Architecture and Design of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. During this trip, approximately 9,600 miles were traveled by plane, 4,200 miles by car, 1,300 miles by public commuting, and 750,000 steps walking.
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Pygmalion Karatzas was born in Greece in 1973. He studied architecture in Budapest, and urban design in Edinburgh. Working as a freelance architect since 1999, he has designed more than 20 projects. Since 2012 he has been involved systematically with artistic and commercial architectural photography.
Distinctions include international competitions Architizer, Sony WPO, IPA, Spider Black & White Awards, PX3. His images are being featured regularly in web and print publications. Exhibitions include 'Eye See the Story', 'Points of View', 'Misty Landscapes', 'The Margin - Panhellenic Architecture Exhibition', 'KTIRIO Magazine - 30 Years of Greek Architecture'. 
Recent projects include the Expo Milano 2015 pavilions, Doha’s Contemporary Architecture, and buildings by Barlas Architects, Valia Foufa & Panagiotis Papassotiriou, Anmahian Winton Architects, R.C. Tech, among others. In 2015 he was awarded the Fulbright Artist Scholarship sponsored by the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design. 
He collaborates with the Danish Architecture Center as photo editor, a contributing photographer on Arcaid Images London and a member of the Association of European Journalists. His on-going research is towards an integral approach to architecture, sustainability and art. Based in Aigion, travels in Greece and abroad for his personal projects and assignments.