Ulysses' Gaze
Since my tweens, I have strongly felt my origin, physical and cultural, from Greece. Most people travel to greek islands to enjoy sea, beaches, food and fun. I travel there as a return to my origin.
And in adulthood, I continued to develop this link, which led me in 2014 to the publication of a photobook: "The gaze of Ulysses”, dedicated to the film-maker Angelopoulos. Ulysses, my Avatar, is the symbol of, humanity pursuing knowledge, as in Dante Alighieri's poem.
Dódeca Project
The project “Dódeca” is still showing the Ulysses’ gaze in Dodecanese.
In February of 2024, I self-published the photobook Dódeca (Twelve), from which the images I present here are taken. Twelve: the number of islands in the Dodecanese archipelago, and also the years passed since my arrival by sailing boat in the archipelago. And finally, I have choiced twelve themes to present the images of this open project.
“The men and women of these images inhabit their place without enchantment, stuck hot inside the ring of beauty, which is not powder, paint, flicker. Beauty is substance, strength and adventure of waves. Here the residents are surrounded by the element that is the majority of the planet. Therefore the island, and not the mainland, is in the image and likeness of the world” (Erri De Luca, italian novelist, translation Jeffrey Kennedy).