By Mike Murphy
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I have to get this off my chest. Recently, I watched a film on a very famous photographer. Something about it was missing for me. Yes, there were some great shots but not one like the shot of i.e. the little girl running naked from the bombing in Vietnam during the war. That is truthful art. I am not a photographer, but when I see something from a photographer, I either feel it or I don't. Same applies to music. I have watched a fair amount of film on photography, etc. and seen alot of works, but I have yet to see anything that strikes me and takes my breath away, or carries my mind away (transports me cerebrally) from it's current thought, like the work of Nikolitsa Boutieros.
There is this inner struggle going on that comes through her lens. Almost like a plea from her to mankind to take the time to see the real beauty of life and it's many shadows. To wake up. Take it all in. Absorb it. The colours, the depth. The expression. An artist's real vision and their true reason for existance. It is all about the light. How much gets in? How much doesn't? Is it pure or altered? Artificial or natural? Can the person capture on film, something that they see beauty in, and portray it to the viewer so that they will see that beauty the same way? Can the photographer capture an artist's true nature? See the beauty that the photographer sees? From the same angle? With the same feeling? With the same passion? With the same truth?
Her art is pure, honest, and truthful. World class. There is nothing to compare it to because there has never been anything like it before nor will there be anything like it again. Because her art reflects so rawly, her own vivid and authentic human core. She stands alone on top of her own individual mountain. And her mountain is mighty high!
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