Eric Geidl, Graz, Austria
Black Medusa, c. 2015
Studio portrait of a young African girl throwing her braids
In Greek mythology Medusa was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described
as a winged human female with a hideous face and living venomous snakes in
place of hair. Gazers on her face would turn to stone. She lived and died on an
island named Sarpedon, somewhere near Cisthene. The 2nd-century BCE novelist Dionysios
Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers
originated her myth, as part of their religion.
Medusa was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who
thereafter used her head, which retained its ability to turn onlookers to
stone, as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her
shield. In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the
evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion. More on Medusa
Eric Geidl: "Hi, I am Eric and I am a photographer since I can think. For many years my photo coverages documented my travels and expeditions and were presented in color slide shows.
Recently I do more studio and portrait photography but enjoy also very much shooting on location.
I like to make new contacts with models and photographers, develop amazing new photo ideas and give them birth by the camera." More on Eric Geidl
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