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The Portrait Photography of Bill Gekas

The Portrait Photography of Bill Gekas

Published Dec 17, 2020 Updated Dec 17, 2020 Culture
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The Portrait Photography of Bill Gekas

By Claudia Moscovici

A self-taught artist of Greek origin born and raised in Melbourne Australia, photographer Bill Gekas is well-known around the world for his distinctive, Alice in Wonderland style that has won him numerous prestigious awards. In 2012, he received  Gold in the International Loupe Awards  and Silver in Le Prix de la Photographie in Paris.

His images usually feature a young girl of an unearthly cuteness in settings that sometimes take us back to different periods of art history and at other times carry us even further away, in fantastic and idiosyncratic realms of the imagination. This is why I drew the comparison between Bill Gekas’ images and Lewis Carroll’s popular tale.

Although “Alice in Wonderland” was published in 1865, it remains to this day one of the most

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