If many Greeks say they feel the legacy of 3000 years and more of History, photographer Michael Almiroudis wants the viewer to consider why and how we look to the past. And how we use photography as a medium matters. Across different bodies of work, Michael explores links between past, present and future and crafts […]
Conceptual
Greece Week: Katerina Tsakiri: A Simple Place
There is this thing about self-portraits that I find particularly intriguing: Japanese artist Tomoko Sawada says of her work “I just trying to change my appearance, looks like not me, but all the pictures is me”; and it’s this almost obvious sounding comment that highlights for me the mind-boggling duality of self-portraiture – the self […]
Greece Week: Ilias Georgiadis: Over.State
Yesterday I mentioned how concerned I was with the risk of looking at imagery and being like an overenthusiastic tourist that finds everything different or exotic while preparing for Greek week. But when I first browsed through the work of the APhF Young Greek Photographers from the last few years, I was surprised by the […]
Virgil DiBiase: My husband won’t tell me his first name
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.” Mark Twain Virgil DiBiase’s project My husband won’t tell me his first name was another portfolio I selected for the […]
Nathalie Seaver: Deconstructing Beauty
Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Deconstructing Beauty, by Nathalie Seaver. Deconstructing Beauty “I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise”- George Gershwin […]
Diane Fenster: HY•ST•ER•IA: Body as Battleground
Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series HY•ST•ER•IA: Body as Battleground, by Diane Fenster. HY•ST•ER•IA: Body as Battleground “The term hysteria comes from the Greek word “hysterika”, meaning […]