Costas Spathis and the Art of Seeing Differently

Costas Spathis captures the world from above with an architect’s precision and a painter’s calm. His photographs transform beaches, pools, and cities into living compositions, where human figures, umbrellas, and shadows become rhythmic points within vast fields of color. The aerial view gives his work a sense of serenity and control, yet what makes it compelling is how alive these ordered worlds feel. Each image finds beauty in repetition, revealing the quiet harmony that exists between nature, structure, and the people who inhabit them.

Spathis’ Greece is reimagined through abstraction. Sandy coastlines become patterns of dots and lines, the turquoise of the sea turns into a color study, and highways or rooftops unfold like blueprints for modern living. His minimalism is not cold but deeply human; he observes how people move, rest, and connect within space, always from a distance that invites reflection rather than intrusion. The balance of geometry and spontaneity gives his photographs an almost musical quality, where rhythm and silence coexist.

What makes his work resonate is its stillness. Spathis isolates moments that would otherwise dissolve into the noise of daily life and turns them into meditations on order and impermanence. The aerial perspective flattens reality into art, yet his compositions retain emotion, a reminder that simplicity can be profoundly expressive when guided by intention.

At 1905 Contemporary, Spathis’ work represents a new chapter in fine art photography, one that blends design, observation, and restraint. His images remind us that the world’s beauty often lies in its structure, waiting to be seen from a different angle. To collect a Costas Spathis print is to own a fragment of that perspective — a quiet, perfectly balanced moment suspended between movement and stillness.