Ourovoros
Ourovoros, 2016
Young Greek Photographer Award
2016
Type
Photography Book
Ourovoros was first presented in Kythera during the Kythera Photo Encounters (now Photo Encounters) at the Young Greek Photographers photo competition, where it won the Young Greek Photographer Award for the best project.
Heading inside the Ourovoros,
every step forward is a step back,
the past is defined by the present.
Through the Ourovoros,
I go in search of reconciliation with the passions,
my fears and cults around the eternal circle of life.
The way, to encode in images
what I felt and experienced,
I found him through contact with ‘Mother’.
The first Mother.
HISTORICAL NOTE
The Ourovoros symbol used comes from the alchemical manual ‘Cleopatra’s Goldworks’. 2nd century.
Ourovoros
58 pages
Chania September 2016
Self-published
20 limited prints
About Kythera Photo Encounters
Since 2002, photographers, scholars, researchers, institutional actors and simple lovers of the medium have met every year in Kythera in the last days of September, for a three- or four-day exhibition, lectures, presentations, discussions and acquaintances. The mission of the Photographic Meetings of Kythera is, above all, to give the opportunity to all those who deal with the myriad aspects of the photographic image in Greece to meet, discuss and exchange opinions in a context that may be humble compared to other events, but accessible and open to all.
From the first year, the unique two-day Conference on the History of Greek Photography in our country was placed at the heart of the Meetings. Already at the end of the last century, there has been a steady increase in scientific interest in photography in Greece, although nowhere has a regular forum been created that responds to the need for lectures, announcements and discussions around this research. The forum of the Conference has always been and remains open to anyone who wants and can contribute to an open dialogue about the photographic medium. Apart from a completely relative emphasis on photography in Greece, there is no limitation of principle: professors, art critics, researchers, sociologists, archaeologists, historians, psychoanalysts and professional photographers have taken the stage, while the topics cover a correspondingly wide spectrum.
The founders of the project, from the very first moment, were three of the founders of the Athens Photography Center and pioneers of New Greek Photography, Kostis Antoniadis, George Depollas and Nikos Panagiotopoulos. From the side, Aris Georgiou, soul of the Photographic Syngyria and first director of the Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki. Among the friends and supporters of the first generation of New Greek Photography, Eleni Maligoura and Lizi Kalliga regularly attended.
www.photoencounters.gr
Ourovoros, 2016
