Photographer Bill Gekas (29 photos)

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Many parents spend kilometers of film and gigabytes of computer memory on their adored child, saving every month of his life in photo and video albums. Australian photographer Bill Gekas, the father of his adorable baby, is from the same category of parents. But being a photographer, he reacted very creatively to this parental responsibility, because the photographs of his daughter look like old paintings from the times of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velazquez, Caravaggio...

Gekas's portfolio consists entirely of photographic paintings depicting his wonderful baby. Just a little girl, she, nevertheless, perfectly “acts out” the roles offered to her by her father, the “director,” trying on the images of peasant women and court fashionistas, intelligent prudes and merchant daughters, enviable brides and simple medieval girls with deep, sad eyes . It seems that she lived all these lives, and did not just pose in front of the camera lens.

Classical painting of the 17th-18th centuries is distinguished by its sincerity and truthfulness of its subjects. There is no room for speculation or distracting details, and the composition is as simple as it is ingenious, as modest as it is elegant and graceful. Bill Gekas didn’t just copy old paintings, he created such “new creations in the old way” that fit right next to famous paintings like “Girl with Peaches” and “Girl with a Pearl Earring.”