Phenomena
The twelve photographs in Antigone Kourakou’s Phenomena series, reminds us of the inexhaustible capacity photography has to transmute reality.
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.
With Greece in its 6th year of recession, tens of thousands of small businesses have been forced to close and many more are likely to go the same way.
Our city’s dark side emerged like being in a sickness period or mourning.
