Georg Gatsas: The Process
Georg Gatsas
Light Years, 2025
The Process documents a formative period in New York’s underground cultural landscape, tracing five years of experimental music and art in the aftermath of September 11. Embedded within the city’s marginal and improvised spaces, Georg Gatsas photographed artists working outside commercial frameworks, prioritising immediacy and artistic conviction.
The book combines portraiture with documentary fragments, capturing figures who would go on to shape contemporary culture while remaining attentive to the fragility and intensity of the moment. Its physical structure extends this engagement. Uncut pages conceal archival ephemera that must be manually opened, turning reading into an active encounter with the material. Positioned between post-9/11 uncertainty and the threshold of the smartphone era, The Process offers both a record of a specific scene and a meditation on artistic persistence in periods of cultural transition.