MIRAPROSPEKT » Dimitri Mellos

EASTREET

miraprospekt — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:15:31 +0000

Dimitri Mellos, Jan Michalko, Gilles Roudière and Jan Zappner in the group exhibition EASTREET.

Street Photography from Eastern Europe.
3-30 October 2013 in Lublin, Poland.
http://eastreet.eu

MIRAPROSPEKT at TÊTE // gallery view

miraprospekt — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:10:08 +0000

MIRAPROSPEKT group exhibition

Photographs by Corinna Sauer, Sebastián Laraia, Jeffrey Ladd, Holger Biermann, Shinji Abe, Patrick Becker, Jiri Makovec, Dimitri Mellos, Richard Sandler, Gilles Roudière, Roger Minick, Jan Zappner, Georg Knoll, Andreas Pein, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Jia Jia Zhang, hannah goldstein and Charlie Jouvet.

at TÊTE art space in Berlin 15 march 2013

artist talks 20 march 2013 – Jan Zappner, Corinna Sauer and Holger Biermann

group exhibition : MIRAPROSPEKT at TÊTE in Berlin

miraprospekt — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:24:29 +0000

MP is part of the programm
„Fotografischer Frühling“
organized by hannah goldstein

infos at http://www.tete.nu

opening: 15 march 2013
gallery weekend: 16 / 17 march
artist talks: 20 march

TÊTE
Schönhauser Allee 161A
10435 Berlin / Germany

hannah goldstein
http://www.hannahgoldstein.net

MIRAPROSPEKT group exhibition
Photographs by Corinna Sauer, Sebastián Laraia, Jeffrey Ladd, Holger Biermann, Shinji Abe, Patrick Becker, Jiri Makovec, Dimitri Mellos, Richard Sandler, Gilles Roudière, Roger Minick, Jan Zappner, Georg Knoll, Andreas Pein, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Jia Jia Zhang, hannah goldstein and Charlie Jouvet.

STREET SHOTS / NYC

miraprospekt — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:55:56 +0000

Dimitri Mellos, Holger Biermann and Patrick Beckers work is shown in the upcoming exhibition: `STREET SHOTS/NYC´, at the South Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton Street, New York.

TAKE TWO: The Post-Sandy opening of the South Street Seaport Museum. Tuesday, January 15, 2013 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm

THE CITY IS LIKE POETRY

miraprospekt — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:50:40 +0000

Photographs from New York City by Dimitri Mellos

“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines”. – E.B. White, Here is New York

I am more interested in poetry than fact, in the ever-so-slight transformation of reality achieved through a lyrical gaze rather than a supposedly “objective” depiction; I aim to inspire and move, not just to inform.

Yet, by being “poetic” I don’t mean taking liberties with reality. My approach to photography is a very straight one, shunning any kind of manipulation or distortion through technical or other means. My photography is founded on respecting and accepting the external world as encountered. The conjunction of my photographic gaze with chance and happenstance is essential to my approach, as is an emphasis on the evanescence of the encountered poetic moments I photograph.

I am interested in fleeting gestures and glances, the momentary field of interaction between passing strangers, the ephemeral dance of light and shadow and street life. I try to visually organize the chaos of the streets just enough to contain it in the photograph, but hopefully not much more than that. I aim for understated pictures that can demonstrate how the ordinary and mundane can be transformed into something mysterious and enchanting when photographed; pictures that pose rather than answer questions, and that evoke the magic immanent in everyday reality.

More than anything, what moves me is capturing the infinitesimal outward signs of an inner emotional life, the interiority of people even in the midst of the most public spaces.

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