Konstantinos Ignatiadis is one of the most talented and profound portraitists of the last half century while at the same time he has remained almost virtually unknown to the wider public. Working as official photographer for the collection and exhibitions at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Ignatiadis met and worked with some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, befriended them, and photographed them for his private practice, producing meditations of such unspeakable beauty, clarity, and sincerity that they go far beyond what is traditionally thought of as portrait photography. In this mind-blowing work, his first to be widely available, Ignatiadis has selected seven of his favourite photographs (portraits of Jean Bertholle, Jean Charlesblais, Francesco Clemente, Loļc Le Groumellec, Aurélie Nemours, Julian Schnabel, and Richard Serra) to be the subjects of signed and numbered hand-printed gelatin silver prints, encased in a bespoke fabric-lined clamshell box that resembles a camera.
