Greek country side timeless convention
The pictures wants to capture the reflection of a society in a cultural and social recession that unfortunately has become immune to the difficulties of everyday life.
The pictures wants to capture the reflection of a society in a cultural and social recession that unfortunately has become immune to the difficulties of everyday life.
My memories, my hometown. Around every corner walking each alley, without much difficulty, you can find the pieces that link the present to the past, and that is magic.
These are some of the last few remaining traditional stone builders in Mesa Mani, whose relationship with stone and building process is almost sensual.
The twelve photographs in Antigone Kourakou’s Phenomena series, reminds us of the inexhaustible capacity photography has to transmute reality.
I am feeling nothing. Complete insensitivity. And this is happiness that you consume in small portions sharing it with others. I am swinning toward the shore my “companions” are waiting impatiently.
The Unfulfilled, the Waiting, the Intentions, the Cancellation, the Resignation, in other words Time is the broad subject of the photographer. Scenes taken out of the recent urban Greek past, witnesses to a futile search, ask questions, disregarding answers.
The series of photographs reflects the consequences that the refugee crisis is having… feelings of hostility, fear, and xenophobia among the Greeks.
Reportage on the road used by Refugees in the Balkans in order to enter Europe.
Workshop: EVERY BOOK IS AN ISLAND Location: Andros, kato paleopoli, 84501 Gavrio, Greece Official Website Workshop Calendar: 15-19 October 2016, Andros Greece DEADLINE TO APPLY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 EVERY BOOK IS AN ISLAND is a photobook making workshop with Eloi Gimeno and 3/3. LUCE offers a workshop of exception in...
“Caesura” is a collection of photographs about the transitory identity state of refugees and migrants entering Greece after crossing the Aegean Sea on their way to Europe
Looking at Antigone Kourakou’s photographs, one fully perceives the suggestive range of photographic abstraction. Although there is scarce visual information that connects the pictures with the real scenes, the situations, and the events they were born out of, the photographs imperatively call for our interpretation.
