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© 2022 Renée Revah
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Renée Revah

— Photographer

Born in 1978 in Athens, Greece.

Lives in South Attica. Renee studied to be an actress and at the same time attended stage lighting and drawing lessons that ultimately guided her to photography. Her admiration for theater has influenced her approach to photography every step of the way. As a result, she tends to direct images and to perceive the world around us as part of a performance on stage.
Recently she started free diving underwater photography and it quickly turned into a passion. The photographic work under the sea represents an impermeable bond. The relation between light and shadow. The pareidolia effect that the sea bed creates. The way the image penetrates the subconscious.

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free”. Jacques Yves Cousteau

 

For underwater photography lovers, this sense of freedom is not created autonomously or automatically, but is conquered over time by managing the successive challenges that arise underwater.

 

Renee’s photography career spans over 20 years, but currently her photographic steps have led her to the aquatic environment that is familiar and beloved. She conveys a feeling of absolute peace, of being part of the uniquely undisturbed world of the seabed. Through her eyes, we are guided below the surface of the lake and urged to get to know a different world, through ethereal figures that turn into water creatures, as the world outside the liquid element temporarily ceases to exist.

 

The audience is invited to experience the aquatic world created by Renee, becoming conduits of the magical feeling brought by the absence of gravity and absolute freedom of movement; symbolized by the image of the undulating, silent and frighteningly dark water, and obeying no rules except for the spontaneity of emotions and the need of every person to express their innate creativity.

 

These austere photographs, excerpts from a marine universe, invite the audience to have a poetic reading and attitude. Even if the viewer has not lived the experience of the photographer or the person being photographed in these peculiar environments, they will be able to feel what Gaston Bachelard argues in Water and Dreams: “Possibly more than any other element, water is the complete poetic reality through which we enjoy, among other things, an intimate taste of our destiny”.

 

Nina Kassianou

EDUCATION 

2017  Photography Seminar “Dreams” with Platon Rivellis.

2011  Masterclass with photojournalist Simon Norfolk.

2010  Seminar of Creative Photography with Platon Rivellis at the Benaki Museum.

2009/11  Photography Seminar with Platon Rivellis.
Focus School of Photography.

1997/99  Acting studies at the Contemporary Theater of Athens with George Kimoulis.

SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021  Solo Photography exhibition – Video projection – Installation at DL Gallery, Athens.

2019  Solo photography exhibition – Installation “Tehom – Abyss”, at 48th Olympus Festival.

2019  Group photography exhibition “The Sea”, at The Bomb Shelter of Adamas, Milos island.

2019  Group photography exhibition “The Sea”, at Antiparos International Photo Festival.

2019  Solo photography exhibition “Silence – A breath of consciousness”, curated by Alex Papaioannou at Booze Cooperativa art space, Athens.

2018  Group photography exhibition “Small Sections” at Sparta, Greece.

2018  Group photography exhibition “Synopsis” at Anti Art Gallery, Kastro – Antiparos.

2018  Group photography exhibition at Antiparos International Photo Festival.

2018  Solo underwater photography exhibition “Ocean of Dreams” at iFocus Gallery, Athens.

2018  Group photography exhibition “Personal Perspective” at Darkroom Gallery, New York.

2018  Group photography exhibition (“Placebo” underwater project) at Technopolis city of Athens, organised by Photographos Magazine.

2018  Group photography exhibition “Underwater” by Loosen Art at Millepiani Art Space, Rome.

2018  Group photography exhibition “Small Pieces in Time” at Sparta, Greece.

2017  Group photography exhibition at the 1st Photosphere international open air photography festival at Patmos Island.

2017  Group photography exhibition “FOUND & LOST” at Float art gallery in collaboration with Void, Athens.

2017  Group photography exhibition “Glances” at the Image Gallery, Athens.

2017  Solo underwater photography exhibition “Plaseabo” at Placebo Pharmacy, Athens.

2017  Group photography exhibition “Seven” at Vault Theater Plus, Athens.

2015  Group photography exhibition “My summer” at the Image Gallery, Athens.

2012  Solo photography exhibition “Vacant time” at Booze Cooperativa art space, Athens.

PRINTED WORK – THEATRICAL BROCHURES

2021  Photobook with Underwater Photography – 200 copies

2018  Cover photograph for Christer Knutsen and Marie Munroe single “Fall to pieces”.

2017  Cover photograph and inlays for Sivert Høyem’s live album and concert film “Live at Acropolis – Herod Atticus Odeon, Athens” and cover of “Give it a whirl” single.

2012  Theatrical play “Routes”, produced by Exaformis Dance Theater at Theater Alumni.

2011  Published photographs in the book “You say I’m life” by Anemos publishing house.

2010  Theatrical play “Amadeus” by Peter Shafer at Vretania Theater.

2009/10  Theatrical play “The Fall” – based on Albert Camu’s The Fall, produced by Blind Spot at Bios – Athens center for today’s art and cross media.

2009  Theatrical Play “Para Amoris” at Theseum Theater.

2009  Theatrical Play “Fatigue”, produced by Mag Company at Bios – Athens center for today’s art and cross media.

1999/01  Travel Photography for Elle, Gaiorama and Geotropio magazines.

ART FAIRS AND AWARDS

2018  The artworks “Still Floating” and “Soul Diving” are shown at the ARTBOX.PROJECT New York 1.0 during the Armoury Art Weeks.       

2017  HPS Honorary Diploma  in the Open Colour Category for the photograph “Nostalgia” at the 1st International Printed Photo Exhibition Circuit.

2017  The artwork “White Urchin” is shown at the Basel artweeks.

2017  Gold awards both in Music and Underwater categories at Mifa – Moscow International Fotography Awards.

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