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Χαρούμενος που το βιβλίο μου «PHOSPHORUS» έχει επιλεγεί για το PHOTOBOOK EXHIBITIOΝ του Athens Photo Festival στο Μουσείο Μπενάκη.

Στο πλαίσιο του κεντρικού προγράμματος του Athens Photo Festival 2016 παρουσιάζεται από τις 9 Ιουνίου έως τις 31 Ιουλίου, για δεύτερη φορά στην Ελλάδα, μία ξεχωριστή έκθεση αφιερωμένη στο φωτογραφικό βιβλίο.

Πρόκειται για μια προσπάθεια να αναδειχθεί μια λιγότερο γνωστή πτυχή της καλλιτεχνικής δημιουργίας στη χώρα μας, που καθιστά το βιβλίο ένα αυτοτελές έργο, παρουσιάζοντας βιβλία από καλλιτέχνες (self published) και διεθνείς εκδοτικούς οίκους, εκδόσεις περιορισμένου αριθμού αντιτύπων, καταλόγους, zines και DIY έντυπα σε σχέση με τη φωτογραφία.

I am happy to announce that my art-book "PHOSPORUS" has been selected for the PHOTOBOOK EXHIBITION of Athens Photo Festival in Benaki Museum.

In recognition of the increasing importance of the photo book in contemporary photographic practices, the Festival presents a specific exhibition dedicated to the form of book.

The Festival is pleased to present a selection of over 350 new photobooks from all over the world, including photobooks independently or commercially published and distributed, handmade, self-published, book dummies, exhibition catalogues, zines and limited edition photography books, etc. The exhibited titles have been selected through an international open submission process, inviting artists and publishers to submit their books.

Για να αποκτήσετε το art-book "PHOSPHORUS" πατήστε εδώ.

To get my art-book "PHOSPHORUS." click here.

(33 from 122 pictures) Animation: Stathis Nafpliotis music: Theodore Katemidis montage: Spiros Psichogios http://www.striftaris.com/phos-shop/ Phosphorus is the ancient Greek word that signifies "he who bears light". Lucifer, in Latin. It was also, once, the name by which the planet Venus was known. Furthermore, it is one of the chemical elements necessary to the existence of life. PHOSPΗORUS is a photographic album, a collection of male nudes that are sometimes incorporated in a natural environment, sometimes in an urban setting and at other times appear to inhabit an unexplored interim of invented space. They circulate, stand, pose, give in to abandon. Impudent within a nudity that seems self understood, they forcefully trigger not only the viewer's retina but also his or her dormant psychic fissures, as each in turn annihilate the stereotypes of manhood. Self-sufficient, they give in to nonchalance, to narcissism, to melancholy, to neurosis, to guiltless bliss. The men of planet PHOSPHORUS appear to despise time and its constraints. Above all, they are there to be looked at.

(33 from 122 pictures)
book design: Nickolaos Tsamboukos, Animation: Stathis Nafpliotis, music: Theodore Katemidis, montage: Spiros Psichogios

'PHOSPHORUS' at Photobook Exhibition of AphF:16