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ATHENS<\/strong> \u2013 Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos<\/a> paused his filmmaking and promotion schedule this week to celebrate a quieter creative pursuit: photography.<\/p>\n The 52-year-old Greek director on Friday inaugurated an exhibition of his photographs in his hometown of Athens, presenting images he has taken over the past five years \u2014 many captured while making his films, wandering through movie sets and nearby neighborhoods, or on trips back to Greece.<\/p>\n The exhibition gathers 182 still photographs, in color and in black and white, from the filmmaker known for his distinctive \u2014 and often disturbing \u2014 cinematic style. It opens days before Lanthimos returns to Hollywood for the March 15 Academy Awards ceremony. In his latest film, \u201cBugonia,”<\/a> a pair of conspiracy\u2011obsessed men kidnap a powerful female executive they accuse of being an alien. <\/p>\n The movie received four Oscar nominations<\/a>, including best picture and best actress for Emma Stone<\/a>, along with nods for adapted screenplay and original score. The photos, all shot with a film camera, features several portraits of Stone, a frequent star in his films.<\/p>\n Lanthimos on Friday said he was happy to dive into something different. Photography, he said, began for him as a technical foundation for filmmaking but gradually became something more personal.<\/p>\n \u201cIn film school you learn that cinema is basically 24 photographs per second,\u201d he said. \u201cSo photography is where it all begins.\u201d<\/p>\n Over time, working with still images opened a creative outlet separate from the complex machinery of movie production, he added. <\/p>\n \u201cYou can be alone with a camera, walking without having something specific in mind,\u201d Lanthimos said. \u201cA photograph can have value on its own, but many photographs together can create another kind of value.\u201d<\/p>\n For Lanthimos, photography also offers something cinema rarely can: immediacy.<\/p>\n \u201cYou create something and almost immediately it exists,\u201d he said, describing the process of shooting and developing film in a darkroom. \u201cYou can take a photograph, print it and hold it in your hands. That satisfaction is very direct.\u201d<\/p>\n While Lanthimos remains one of contemporary cinema\u2019s most distinctive filmmakers, he said photography will play a growing role in his creative life.<\/p>\n Unlike movies, he said, photographs are free to evolve long after they are taken.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can present them in a book, in an exhibition, combine them in different ways,\u201d Lanthimos said. \u201cThere\u2019s a freedom in photography that is very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n The exhibition at the Onassis Foundation runs through May 17.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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