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Photographer - Researcher - Lecturer

Based in Thessaloniki, Greece

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Photography is for me a tool to investigate the world through its image,

and vice-versa, to examine the image through the world and its referents.

Photographic images simultaneously record and construct, preserve and transform.

They are both optical and a psychological event.
 

My earlier projects (2008 - 2015) are concerned with conditions of contemporary life in so-called Western society (my own), aiming both to document and to comment on work (Open Plan, The Politics of the Office), education (Higher Education), displacement (A Place Called Diaspora, The Country), and leisure (The Beach) through the visual examination of their spatial structures.

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Increasingly, I became interested in the interplay of word and image, and my practice moved towards a different mode of imaging the everyday, that recognizes the psyche of the observer, and integrates her in the observed. Among the work of many, I am indebted in particular to the visual practice and critical writings of Victor Burgin and Allan Sekula, their notions of, respectively, psychical realism and disassembled images, being crucial to how I think and see the image. River Boats & Inner Thoughts, Talking to Trees, and the forthcoming Let the Boats In and Interior Desert are all born from this double, interrelated movement of looking out looking in, aiming to dismantle the apparent naturalness of dominant and dominating forms of representation.  

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