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Colaborations:

Christos Kapralos (Photo) Carlos Pareja (Photo) Alberto Shock (Illustration) Xavi Montojo Jordan (Photo) Juan Carlos Lopez Davis (Paint) Enrique Toribio (Photo)

Christos Kapralos was born in Athens in 1984 and studied Interior Design.

He started capturing self-portraits and pics of his family with cheap cameras when he was 15.

The thematology of his pictures include self portraits and street snapshots.

In his early 20’s he collaborated with Kirios Kriton, an architect artist, and 3 years later he started working in magazines of international circulation such as Vogue Hellas as a living assistant House, Garden and Life& Style , House by life& Style .

Photographs of his have been hosted in various greek and foreign magazines and blogs such as Dust magazine, Ticketohell magazine, Honk magazine, graperuitgratefull.com etc.

In 2009 he took place in the first group exhibition during the Going youth festival in Technopolis, Gazi.

During the last year he has been living and working in Berlin, Germany and in the end of September –October 2011 he is preparing to present his second upcoming group exhibition which is to be held in Berlin.

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I am currently doing freelance graphic design projects (Specializing in corporate identity) and photography (specializing in fashion and advertising).

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Xavi Montojo for raw images, close, carnal, where the body and matter are noted for their simplicity and restricted use of decorative elements to give more prominence to the attitude. With this minimal staging, his portraits show us the intrinsic beauty of the body, the action contained in a glance or a gesture, often introspective air close-ups and direct and honest.

Enlightened is a photographic series where baroque and theatrical light emphasizes the physicality of some people in mystical attitude. Sanctify the scene a levitating heart. A heart of organic, with more buds that remind us of the cyclical continuity of Eastern philosophy that the idea of punishment and redemptive sacrifice of the Christian faith.

Credits models: Arnau Gol. Marc Montojo, Jordi Perramon., Oscar, Freddy, Ricardo Salas, Chifu, Alicia Valles.

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Enrique Toribio “THE EMOTION OF BEAUTY” Whenever someone asks me to talk about myself and my pictures, I find it really complicated to be able to get started. But, once I manage to break the crust of ice that sorrounds me, a feeling of exciment invades me. Then, normally I can´t stop rolling.

It is a fact that I have a fixation on communication. I see communication as a driving force of all relationships in the universe. That is, the need for communicating with others, being understood by them and to understand them. Moreover, I think that shyness or doubt should not be a brake to stop the neverending flow of communication.

My attraction to photography was a result of the eternal relationship I had with drawing. I guess ‘Fortune’ showed me the way to keep those storytelling methods in time. And, thanks to digital photography and digital photo editing applications, I felt that I could have freedom try out new things.

My passion for photo editing comes after my fixation on human bodies and faces.

Editing images as a way to express my personal vision, my interior world, that fills me up with dismay when I conteplate beauty. And when I talk about BEAUTY, I mean real beauty. The one written in caps. The one and only. The one that is beyond our understanding, under our skin. The one that thrills us to the point that we would do whatever is needed to embrace it, to keep it forever, even to photograph it.

I strongly believe that to photograph the human beauty is to transform it into something devine. I feel that beauty is a gift that sets apart the human beings from what is finite. And therefore, it makes them eternal.

In my opinion, beauty behaves like matter. It is not created or destroyed, only transformed. And when it is finally in front of you, nobody can take that away. So everyone that wants to be in contact with beauty, has to accept the fact that the only way to comprehend it inner nature is to see it evolving.

So, my quest is to be able to be close enough to all the beauty that, we, the human beings can offer. And, to photograph them in order to tell the world what I felt.

As I stated before, beauty not only inades us through images, but also through emotions. And, I believe that those emotions modify what we feel and allow us to see how it truly is inside us.

Madrid, August 16th 2011

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