Political Rallies
Portfolio created: 2007
Political Rally of Major Party I&II
People are gathering in the central square once again, as so many times in the past.
Green on Monday, Blue on Thursday, full of confidence, full of themselves. It is they and not the opponents that will take this country a step further into a better future.
From a distance, they don’t seem that different in terms of faces, size or numbers. They don’t come from different social backgrounds, nor do they represent different morals. These people, the green and blue crowd that chose to rally in the streets and applaud their party leader with cheers and songs only ten and thirteen days, respectively, after the catastrophic fires in the Peloponnese, represent all of us…
All of us, who demand the best for this country, as long as it doesn’t bare any personal cost: all of us, who are ready to point the finger to the next guy and report his anti-social behaviour, only to copy it to the letter when no-one is looking. All of us who publicly brag about our immaculate ethos, while feeding corruption under the table.
Ten and thirteen days before these two political rallies, the country wasn’t green, nor blue. Ten and thirteen days ago, long before the cheers, the songs, the party banners, the hotdog carts, the balloons, the fireworks and the confetti, the country was black.
Interim
Portfolio created: 2007
The Interim photographs are intermediate pauses in a journey where the path is more important than the final destination. They are taken during professional assignments right before or after their official version. This body of work was created in a continuing attempt to keep one’s gaze upon the subject-matter alive and intense, trying to avoid the repetition that experience often brings to one’s approach.
It is a constant hope and will remain a continuing wish to balance between capturing the aura of the moment and interpreting the spirit of the place. While experiencing light and shadow, volume and textures, the objects that occupy the space and the openings that make it transparent, one can wait for the moment when space unveils all its potential right in front of one’s eyes. Then, and only then can one reach the point where one moves away from the obvious approach and becomes strong enough to formulate one’s own proposal about the world laying out there.
