The presented photographic works are not about depicting common reality, they are the result of a continuous study on the interpretation of specific visual elements under an artistic perception. Τhe photographer's intent is about suggesting and revealing new and more desirable aspects of reality in the form of photographic frames, strongly related to the sense of minimalism, symbolism, isolation and introversion. By utilizing the original scene merely as a canvas, the photographer creates art from carefully selected subjects that are usually unconventional, insignificant and uncommon to be used in a photographic frame. It is a novel way of utilizing the medium of photography to present a new reality, or, quoting Alberto Giacometti, "the object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity”...
Elaborating further on the attributes of his photographic works, the photographer finds artistic relevance to Brian Eno's view on ambient music: "it should be as ignorable as it is interesting". Under this "plagiarism of intent", these photographic works act as unobtrusive decoration elements, effortlessly blending with suitable interior facilities and when the viewer decides to focus on the tonalities, shapes and structures, the images become a medium to a new world...
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