ENG GR The series The Model Family is an exploration into identity through portraits of my immediate family. I am interested in the intimate progression of individuals over time, the body’s ability to convey emotion and experience through gesture and the ambiguity of the family photograph, specifically the ambiguity of a single image or moment …
ENG GR In Tibet, red is the color of robes and temples. It is the symbolic color of Tibetan Buddhism, also the sacred representation of chastity and perseverance. As Chinese authorities’ control over Tibet tightens, Tibetan Buddhism, once intertwined with politics, gradually grows indifferent toward politics. The monastic codes embedded in the religion: contentment, and …
Ruth Kaplan BATHERS ENG GR “Bathers” by Canadian photographer Ruth Kaplan explores the social theatre of communal bathing. Kaplan began this ten-year project in 1991, photographing bathers in hot springs, bathhouses and hamams from California to Eastern Europe, and from Western Europe high-tech spas to Icelandic hot springs and Moroccan traditional bathhouses, where social bonding is …
eng I consider photographs to be traces of reality. Fragments, transformations that convey information in a non- linear mode. They are expanding our perception, they constitute a reality in the second degree, narrower but more dramatic (Susan Sontag). According to Walter Benjamin, in them we recognize images of our unconscious. For many years, among what …
eng The series entitled “Perpetual Motif” includes photos of the last eight years from his own fantastic city, which is perceived through a puzzle of fragmentary images from various cities that he has visited and photographed. gr Η ενότητα με τίτλο “Perpetual Motif” περιλαμβάνει φωτογραφίες των τελευταίων οχτώ ετών μέσα στην πόλη -μια δική του …
Francesco Merlini THE FLOOD eng “Tragedy in classical theory is supposed to inspire both pity and terror, but the daily horror and violence of world news often leave us struggling to produce those responses. No one can really feel on cue the emotions apparently required of us by a daily news stream of anniversaries of …
eng At home I always used to linger with curiosity at an old photograph of some of my Andalusian relatives. With the passing of years this photograph has given me an image of how I think Andalusia might be. “SW” is the result of approximately three years of research in the south of Spain, an …
