Close-Ups (Paperback)

As with all forms of art, photography creates its own reality. It transfixes the intensity of the moment with a unique immediacy, vividness and spontaneity. The journey from darkness to light is a never-ending game with our own selves for self-knowledge and self-esteem. So it is in the darkroom, by writing the light, the world is revealed before our eyes and allows us to see images and emotions to which we may have never before paid attention. This album contains a collection of photographs from the creator's travels to the four edges of the Earth. Christina Drakos, gifted with the instinct of good framing, she focuses on her subject so as to imprint the gravity and the tension of the moment, helped by the magic thread that connects her soul to the object or the face she's photographing. Something, which is very lively, especially with children's photographing, when all emotions pass, unfiltered, through their eyes.