Bob Vylan with Keith Morris (Circle Jerks) backstage at Coachella '25 - photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Left to Right Bobby Vylan, Keith Morris, Bob Vyla,  Bobbie Vylan photographed backstage at Coachella 2025 by Ithaka Darin Pappas

"Colibrís Gigantes En El Puente De La Calle Sexta" (Giant Hummingbirds at Six Street Bridge) by Ithaka Darin Pappas

 "Colibrís Gigantes En El Puente De La Calle Sexta" 

(or Giant Hummingbirds at Six Street Bridge) by Ithaka Darin Pappas

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

"Colibrís Gigantes en el Puente de la Calle Sexta" is a 2024 mixed-media artwork by photographer/artist Ithaka Darin Pappas for his international photo-collage series, Urban Nektar. Created on wood with ink, paper and acrylic paints, the original piece measures 120cm x 80cm.

"Colibrís Gigantes en el Puente de la Calle Sexta" portrays two gigantic hummingbirds feeding on fluorescent-colored cactus flowers growing directly out of the cement arches of the Sixth Street bridge in downtown Los Angeles (designed by architect Michael Maltzan).

During late 2024, Ithaka Darin Pappas made hundreds of reproductions of the image "Colibrís Gigantes en el Puente de la Calle Sexta" on long rolls of canvas panel and hung them throughout the downtown Los Angeles area surrounding the bridge, including; Boyle Heights, The Arts District, Skid Row and Little Tokyo. Graffiti artists quickly recognized the potential of surfaces and proceeded to tag upon, transforming them into new unsolicited 'collaborative works'.

"Chiapas Heart Expedition", travel photography book by Ithaka Darin Pappas

 "Chiapas Heart Expedition", the new photography book 

by Ithaka Darin Pappas highlighting rural Southern Mexico. 

The street-style travel images were created during a travel 

to remote areas near the Guatemalan border.

 "Chiapas Heart Expedition", the new photography book 

by Ithaka Darin Pappas highlighting rural Southern Mexico. 

The street-style travel images were created during a travel 

to remote areas near the Guatemalan border.

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Sun Temple Sojourn - Peru ThroughThe Lens of Ithaka Darin Pappas (new photography book)

 Sun Temple Sojourn - Peru ThroughThe Lens of Ithaka Darin Pappas (new photography book) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DL3GS91B

Other photography books by Ithaka Darin Pappas include;

Rangamala: रंगमाळ

Aliens of AkahtiLândia

PM DAWN photo by Ithaka Darin Pappas

PM DAWN (1991) at the Mondrian Los Angeles - photographs by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Rangamala: रंगमाळ new book by photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas

Rangamala (रंगमाळ) new book by photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas Rangamala, by Ithaka Darin Pappas, is a collection of street and travel photographs captured during a lengthy sojourn to northern India. The images traverse a multi-socioeconomic cross section of the states of; Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The pictures are often glimpses into the daily lives of the cross-cultural citizens of modern India.

Greek-American photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas (or simply Ithaka) grew up in Southern California. He began taking pictures at a very early age, publishing work by his late teens. He has since traveled extensively, residing and working in a handful of other countries such as Brazil, Greece, Japan and Portugal. His images have appeared in renowned venues including; Annenberg Space for Photography and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles International Center of Photography (New York), Museum of Pop (Seattle), Ferro Gashouder (Rotterdam), Museum of Image and Sound (São Paulo), and Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi. Four Info ISBN: 9798394724534

Photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas

Mexican artist and choreographer César Brodermann at the opening of his show "Traslado Permanente" in Mexico City

Mexican artist and choreographer César Brodermann at the opening of his show "Traslado Permanente" at MUAC in Mexico City August 31st 2023. Photograph by Ithaka Darin Pappas.

N.W.A. photographs by Ithaka Darin Pappas currently at Academy Museum and the Museum of Pop

Historic photographs of hip hop legends N.W.A. by Ithaka Darin Pappas are currently appearing in two north American museum shows; "Contact High: A Visual History of Hip Hop" curated by Vikki Tobak at Seattle's Museum Of Pop and "Boyz n the Hood" at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles curated by Esme Douglas. During the years from 1988-1990, Ithaka Darin Pappas photographed Eazy E & NWA a reported 18-20 times. Images from these photographic sessions have appeared in the books; Hip Hop Raised Me by DJ Semtex, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip Hop by Vikki Tobak, Approximate Gestures : Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett by Anthony Stuart and The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll.

Punk stars Bob Vylan in Los Angeles - (photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas - 2022)

Filipe Toledo in Mongaguá, Brazil (2009) photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas

2022 WSL World Surfing Champion Filipe Toledo in Mongaguá, Brazil (2009) photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Broken Dreams On Hollywood Boulevard: a photograph by Ithaka Darin Pappas (2022)

Oarsman in Varanasi, India by photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas

Oarsman in Varanasi, India (2018) by photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas

Pan Pacific Auditorium Fire (Los Angeles, May 24th 1989) photograph by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Decay and fire The fire of May 24th, 1989 There were hopes throughout the surrounding Fairfax District towards refurbishing the Pan-Pacific, possibly as an ice rink or cultural center and the parking lot soon became a park. However, the building was neglected for many years and damaged by small fires started by transients. In 1975, the Pan-Pacific made a brief appearance as the entrance to the NBC Studios in Hollywood for the movie Funny Lady. Interest in the building was rekindled somewhat with its 1978 inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. The 1980 release of the movie musical Xanadu brought renewed hopes the building might be saved when the auditorium's facade was used to portray a dilapidated building which became a sparkling, brightly lit roller disco nightclub, but the movie was critically panned and not an economic success. It also appears at the beginning of the 1980 music video for the Barnes & Barnes song "Fish Heads". Black-and-white film footage of a man with a jet pack flying from left to right in front of the facade was used in the video for the 1981 Devo single, "Beautiful World". The dilapidated façade was used in the video for "Dancing in the Sheets" by Shalamar. Its final appearance was in the 1988 movie Miracle Mile. The auditorium continued to deteriorate throughout the 1980s, mostly owing to neglect. A large loading door on the southeast corner was often forced open, allowing free access to anyone. A fire in May 1983 damaged the northern end. On the evening of May 24, 1989 (six days after the 54th anniversary of its opening), the Pan-Pacific Auditorium was destroyed by a fire, the smoke from which was visible throughout the Los Angeles basin.[4]

"Eazy On The Mic" 1988 Portrait of Eazy E by Ithaka Darin Pappas

"Eazy On The Mic" 1988 Portrait of Eazy E by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Portuguese Tribal House Music Pioneers, Underground Sound Of Lisbon (DJ Vibe, Rui da Silva) photographed in Portugal -1994 by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Underground Sound Of Lisbon - photographed in Portugal (1994) by Ithaka Darin Pappas



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UMBILICUS by photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas (Tokyo 1992)

"UMBILICUS" (the Tokyo  belly-button project)

by artist, Ithaka Darin Pappas 

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"UMBILICUS" by Ithaka Darin Pappas (Japanese belly-button project - 1992) @photographer_ithaka.d.pappas *To schedule this exhibit at a museum or gallery - or for merchandising inquiries, please contact ithaka.official@gmail.com

Although originally conceived in 1988, it wasn’t until the summer of 1992, while briefly living in Japan, that Ithaka Darin Pappas began and completed his photographic project UMBILICUS, a collection of one-hundred and twenty-seven black and white navel portraits. During a period of two months, Ithaka combed the streets of Tokyo is search of willing belly-button subjects.

However, photographing in the light of day, sometimes in the middle of public squares and parks filled with thousands of people, did not prove to be an easy task. Japanese people were quite shy when asked to show their navels in public to a stranger, further complicated by the fact that the photographer was a Gaijin (foreigner).

For this reason some sessions were held in the subjects’ homes or offices after first meeting them in public. Regardless, because of the high rejection rate (10-20 refusals for every one acceptance), sometimes it would take an entire day just to complete the belly-button portrait of only one or two subjects. In addition to the Japanese majority of navels photographed, a percentage of outsiders were also included. These individuals were from Brazil, China, Denmark, England, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United States. Subject ages ranged from three to ninety-six. In addition to the Japanese majority of navels, a percentage of outsiders were also included. People from Brasil, China, Denmark, England, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden and the United States. Says Ithaka, “I didn’t photograph tourists for the project, but only actual residents of Tokyo.The foreigners who participated, mostly in their 20s-40s, were all living full-time in Tokyo and held a diverse spectrum of jobs from dishwasher to scientist. Among the Japanese subjects - I photographed the navels of children as young as three (as well as those of their parents) and elderly people too, one in his late 90's. The end result of UMBILICUS wasn’t only a study of human anatomy, but in actuality, concluded in becoming an anthropological observation of Tokyo’s population in 1992."

UMBILICUS was published for the first time in January 1993 in the Japanese edition of the world-renowned fine art photography quarterly called Déja-Vu (Issue #11), the same issue that photographic legends Inose Kou, Frederick Sommer and Nobuyoshi Araki appeared. Other international magazine appearances of UMBILICUS soon followed. In 1995, the rock group Flood (signed to the Portuguese label, União Lisboa) chose images from UMBILICUS to appear on the front and back cover of their debut album, Despertar.

In 1996, the San Francisco culture magazine Speak featured Ithaka’s UMBILICUS as their cover-story. The cover itself (designed by world-famous graphic artist Martin Venesky) was considered controversial, causing the magazine to be returned by many of their distributors. It was the worst-selling issue in the magazine’s history.

Also in 1996, UMBLILICUS was exhibited at Lisbon’s Instituto Português do Juventude, with selected images printed as large as two-meters wide and toned with Ithaka’s trademark deep blues. Later in 1998, UMBILICUS was shown at Galeria Zé dos Bois (ZDB) in Lisbon, as part of Ithaka's larger photographic exhibit entitled, Quality Time. #bellybuttons #photography #ithakadarinpappas ________________________________________________________________ Ithaka is represented by WOA-Way Of Arts (Portugal) and Coffin Alley Gallery (US)

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Photo: Ithaka Darin Pappas © 2018

Note: These images are not Public Domain, it is Necessary to acquire authorization

thru my myself ithaka.official@gmail.com or my representatives at the Tack Artist Agency Group in Los Angeles before reproducing in print, online or merchandising ... thank you.

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Inspiring photographers: Shihachi Fujimoto, Bruce Gilden Hisae Imai, Takeji Iwamiya, Akira Komoto, Motoichi Kumagai, Seiji Kurata, Michiko Matsumoto, Aizō Morikawa, Eiichi Moriwaki, Tadayuki Naitoh, Kiyoshi Nishiyama, Yoshino Ōishi, Kōji Satō, Tokihiro Satō, Bukō Shimizu, Mieko Shiomi, Teikō Shiotani, Raghubir Singh, Yutaka Takanashi, Toyoko Tokiwa, Haruo Tomiyama, Kansuke Yamamoto 

Speak Magazine (issue 03 - 2006 cover by Ithaka Darin Pappas)

"Floral Attraction" a photograph by Ithaka Darin Pappas © 2020

"Floral Attraction" 

a photograph by artist Ithaka Darin Pappas  © 2020

@photographer_ithaka.d.pappas

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Photo: Ithaka Darin Pappas © 2020

Note: This image is not Public Domain, it is Necessary to acquire authorization

 before reproducing in print, online or merchandising.
Please contact ithaka.art@gmail.com - thank you.

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World-renowned Brazilian photographer and filmmaker Dede Fedrizzi photographed at his studio in in São Paulo, Brazil (2018) by Ithaka Darin Pappas

World-renowned Brazilian photographer and filmmaker Dede Fedrizzi photographed at his studio in São Paulo, Brazil (2018)    by Ithaka Darin Pappas

"Polyrhythm" (1992) by Takashi Murakami. Photo by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Takashi Murakami with "Polyrhythm" (1992) Photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas at Galerie Mars in Shibuya-Ku

 At the beginning of his career, Murakami appeared to be content with the lot of most successful contemporary artists: to create work that is admired by critics and desired by wealthy collectors but leaves the general public baffled or hostile. He was constructing conceptual pieces similar to the art being made in the West. Among those early works, which began attracting attention in the early 90's, was "Polyrhythm", a seven-foot-high slab of yellow resin, minimalist in form, on which many toy United States infantry soldiers climb. 

Read Full article here:  https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/the-murakami-method.html

Takashi Murakami photographed with "Polyrhythm" by Ithaka Darin Pappas 

in Tokyo Los Angeles (1992) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami

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