2024-05-08 10:29:02
The work entitled “Still Life” by Akis Detsis presents the Photometria International Photography Festival from May 11 to Sunday June 2 at the Photometria Photography Center (February 21, 184).
“I consider photographs traces of reality. Snippets, transformations that convey information in a non-linear way. They expand our perception, they constitute a secondary reality present in a narrower but more dramatic way (Susan Sontag). According to Walter Benjamin, we recognize in them, images of our unconscious. For many years now, among the things I photograph, I have been collecting images that seemingly do not have a specific theme or belong to groups with common external characteristics. But studying them better, despite not being able to explain them logically, I can perceive their affinities in terms, not so much of their external form, as of the feeling they convey. Regardless of whether they are photographs of exteriors or interiors, objects, structures or human forms, they convey something symbolic, latent, latent, a presence that cannot easily be described in words. They highlight aspects of the world that direct vision overlooks”, says Akis Detsis about “Still Life”.
Akis Detsis was born in Athens in 1963. He studied mathematics at the University of Athens. He has been photographing since 1991. He has published five photo albums (PRINT, 2024, self-published / STILL LIFE, 2019, self-published / PROJECTION, 2017, self-published / INTERMEDIATE TIME, 2008, tetarto publications / SPACE, 1998, Fotochoros publications) and has participated in other photographic publications. He has held six solo exhibitions (1998, 2000, 2008, 2017, 2022, 2024) and has participated in several group exhibitions. Samples of his work have been published in photography magazines and websites and exhibited at photography events.
The opening of the exhibition, which will be accompanied by the book of the same name, a private edition, will take place on Saturday, May 11, at 8 pm, in the presence of the photographer.
Photometria Photography Center is open Thursday to Sunday, 5pm to 9pm. The entrance is free.