The interview is with Konstantinos Giannopoulos, often known as Kosta, who’s a portrait and nude photographer residing in Germany. Kosta realized pictures by way of observe and the web and started creating NFTs in February 2022 on Basis. He likes to be impressed by individuals’s fears and worries, fashions’ tales, and locations he visits along with his household. His artistic course of is versatile, typically having a transparent imaginative and prescient and planning the shoot, whereas different instances letting the shoot evolve organically. Kosta’s model entails taking pictures with daylight, and he sees a optimistic growth in his model. He believes that NFTs have a fantastic future forward and can open doorways for a lot of hidden skills. Kosta’s upcoming drops will take a while as he has many concepts to implement.
Are you able to inform us about your background and the way you bought into creating NFT artwork?
Kosta: Hello, I’m Konstantinos Giannopoulos, however everybody calls me Kosta. I’m a portrait and nude photographer residing in Germany, and I’m the son of Greek immigrants who got here within the late 60s. I’m 43 years outdated, married, and have three kids. I’ve been taken with pictures since I used to be a toddler, however through the analog time, creating movies was not low-cost. I realized a traditional occupation, and when it was financially attainable, I purchased my first mirror DSLR digicam to {photograph} our first youngster. I nonetheless do pictures alongside my job, and perhaps I’ll handle to reside from it, which might be my dream. I didn’t examine or get taught pictures. I realized the whole lot by way of observe and from the web. I first examine NFTs in February 2022 after I switched from Instagram to Twitter due to the nude rules. After I learn just a few posts from Kingofmidtown.eth, I actually needed to be part of it as a result of I needed to realize extra than simply likes on social media with my work.
When did you form your first NFT? Which platform did you select and why?
Kosta: I formed my first NFT on the finish of February on Basis. I appreciated the location format, and it was simpler to search out high-quality pictures NFTs there.
Are you able to inform us one factor you possibly can’t reside with out? (and why)
Kosta: My household, as a result of they’ve supported me to pursue my ardour.
Who’re a few of your favourite artists, each within the conventional and NFT area?
Kosta: It is a troublesome query as a result of I like too many alternative artists from completely different genres. I can’t resolve on a variety.
Are you able to discuss a selected piece of NFT artwork you’ve created that you simply’re notably happy with?
Kosta: It’s exhausting to reply as a result of as an artist, you’ve a unique relationship to what you create than the viewer. For instance, “A Summer time Day within the Corn Area” is at the moment being proven in Beijing, and “Superbadgirl” can be proven at NFT NYC 2023, which makes me proud that these two are being proven, however I don’t love them greater than the opposite NFTs.
How do you get impressed and maintain arising with new concepts to your artwork?
Kosta: I’m impressed in numerous methods. I’m a really empathetic particular person. For instance, just a few days earlier than I created my assortment “Trapped inside me” on Basis, I had a dialog with a collector who advised me that nobody round him is aware of that he loves to gather nude artwork as a result of he’s afraid of the reactions of others. With this collection of images, I needed to symbolize the fears and worries of people that don’t dare to indicate the true me and are available out of themselves. In my assortment “Hope at Ninfa,” I used to be influenced extra by the mannequin. Since she fled from Ukraine, she revealed to me through the preliminary interview your worries and fears that the battle there triggers in her. There are additionally conditions, similar to walks with my household, the place I see locations the place I can instantly think about a shoot with a mannequin. Then I take into consideration how I wish to implement this and the way the mannequin ought to look, and so on. It has additionally occurred that I’ve booked solely the mannequin, and the concepts got here solely after we had been on the location. I’m impressed or influenced in some ways.
Are you able to inform us about your artistic course of and the way you go about bringing your concepts to life?
Kosta: My artistic course of is sort of versatile and is determined by the undertaking. Typically I’ve a transparent imaginative and prescient of what I wish to obtain, and I plan the shoot accordingly, from the situation, mannequin, and wardrobe to the digicam settings and lighting. Different instances, I’ve a tough thought, and I let the shoot evolve organically, guided by the mannequin’s vitality, the environment, and my instinct. I all the time attempt to set up a cushty and respectful environment on the set, the place the mannequin feels secure and might specific herself freely. After the shoot, I choose the very best photos and edit them in post-processing to reinforce their aesthetic qualities and convey the temper and message I had in thoughts.
Should you might journey anyplace on the planet, the place would you go, and why this location?
Kosta: A really large dream was to go to New York, which I can lastly notice this 12 months and go to NYC in an NFT as considered one of my NFTs is proven. In any other case, I might like to journey to the USA as a result of this nation has so many stunning locations with gorgeous landscapes.
How did you give you your particular model?
Kosta: It’s exhausting to say, however perhaps it was influenced by my first contact with nude pictures at a workshop. That was in an outdated manufacturing room the place the sunshine was unimaginable to {photograph} nude. Since then, I wish to shoot solely with daylight in each shoot. However sadly, it’s not all the time attainable as a result of in winter, the times are brief, and the climate isn’t all the time nice in Germany, so I’ve to go to the studio.
How has your model developed through the years?
Kosta: I see a optimistic growth in my model. I all the time study one thing, and if that weren’t so, it might be unhappy as a result of there isn’t any extra growth.
What do you see as the way forward for NFT artwork, and the way do you see it evolving?
Kosta: NFT artwork has a fantastic future forward, and we’re nonetheless at the start. I assume and hope that it’ll turn into technically simpler for the typical client, in order that extra artists and collectors will are available.
How do you steadiness the technical features of making NFT artwork with the artistic facet?
Kosta: When I’ve the artistic section, I don’t take into consideration NFTs anymore – that might be too distracting.
How do you assume NFTs have modified the artwork world, and what influence do you assume it is going to have in the long run?
Kosta: We’re nonetheless at the start, however it is going to occur. In the long term, it will likely be indispensable as a result of it opens the door to the world for a lot of. There are such a lot of hidden skills that aren’t found, however with NFTs, you possibly can showcase your artwork from anyplace you’ve web.
The place do you see your self and your work headed sooner or later, and what objectives do you’ve to your NFT artwork profession?
Kosta: It’s troublesome to reply in a bear market. Hope and see are fairly completely different for the explanation I can not reply the query. I solely hope for extra sooner or later.
The place can collectors discover your work?
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