Meadow of Asphodilus
Stories of the people who live in Municipal Retirement Home, partially and indirectly, with sincerity and respect, like the stories we hold in the family album.
Stories of the people who live in Municipal Retirement Home, partially and indirectly, with sincerity and respect, like the stories we hold in the family album.
This series is the attempt to understand the functioning of sensations. To explorate the space of emotions and the interaction between the forms of the image and the viewer. Nasos Karabelas is a fine art photographer and film director based in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Doors, windows, light, the sea, a great passage. Diminutive man. Time eternal. My own revelation. The journey is a photo essay with a 1960s camera, actualized on the islands of Tinos and Patmos. A quiet study of a brightly lit world.
The idea of SHAME, is a kind of a personal confession, an imaginary, symbolic mirror that reflects fears, desires, fantasies, nightmares, memories.
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.
It is an impulsive answer. A continuous YES and NO. A wink. A transmitter-receiver relationship. The light, the look, the expression, the body.
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.
