Cultural policy needs deeper study and should not be based on charismatic
Exceptions Art as a space with unclear boundaries and even more unclear criteria has always generated tensions and conflicts. Now that state funds have been added tensions have taken on…
A special mention should be made of the seemingly worthy
Effort of Yiannis Stathatos to hold a fewday meeting every year in Kythira on the subject of Greek Photography in general during which announcements and lectures will be made. A…
The personality of the various curators and the politics
Each museum will stimulate and exploit its vitality as a new and contemporary artistic medium. The only Greek museum that has the right to claim that it already has an…
The tireless efforts of its manager are not able to give life to a rather
Stillborn idea The second state institution is the Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki. Another institution that absorbs some state funds in order to do nothing special. To date the only…
I hope he hasn’t thrown them away Finally know that my opinion
Like any opinion on artistic matters is not unique or infallible. But it is not possible to proceed without an opinion and an opinion. And we always leave open the…
There for each of us are the best the connoisseurs
Those who have won our appreciation those whose acceptance counts more than the approval of all the unions teachers gallerists museologists journalists or historians art. Otherwise we don’t show our…
The photographers who are my former students who have been honoring
Me for many years by consistently asking my opinion are very few. And I hope I’ve helped them bring out the best in them as photographers. But there are very…
That’s why I’m not kidding when I say that the quality of a job someone
Submits to me for judgment is not measured by the few good ones I keep but by the quality of the ones I reject. It is correct that is to…
I would add that now that so many are teaching and I assume successfully
Covering the basic historical and technical aspects of photography what helps and perhaps is missing is critical commentary. However the critical comments are in many ways heavy and indigestible. So…
There is no such thing as just violence There are no types of violence
There are no more or less pathetic victims of violence. Violence is one abhorrent and rejectable in its entirety. And violence is always exerted by the strong against the weak.…
The age of social networks choices are more necessary than ever
I often feel not only useless but also exhausted to advise photographers who have been my students and help them in a series of artistic choices which the next day…
For some time now however I have regrettably noticed
That there are not a few active members of the Circle who neither disagree nor agree but also do not understand. And that doesn’t just make me sad it mostly…
No one needs to tell us if this person is suffering from AIDS
Another less photogenic disease. His weakness in this case does not emphasize the condition but the unprotected man. The direction succeeded in transforming the minor details into a major photographic…
Burned out Lost Scared It is actually the photographer’s first wife
Rebecca The slow shutter speed gave the blurring of the eyes and the whole photo. Something like a snort and like a photographer’s emotion. The underlighting of the photo gave…
The brunette made the mistake of breaking this rule and is being
Punished for it While the older one is carrying out her sad mission she casts her eyes on the skater girl’s hair and realizes that it isn’t actually blonde either……
The photo was taken from an airplane An airplane was indeed
Needed so that the photographer could reach the level of the heads of these giants. The four of them are actually on an airport runway divided in two lengthwise. The…
The viewer reader probably got the feeling that it was a family picnic
The conflict in Bosnia It showed two bodies on top of each other in the middle of a roadway. The caption informed us that it was the bodies of two…
Whereas a photograph where its deductive power derives
Its Information but is Not Exhausted in It. Stands Up to Any Explanation Whether We Believe. In It or Not That is It Does Not Need the Explanation. Much History…