Street Photography; From a Distance by Antonis Giakoumakis

Photography is for me all the things that I do not want to forget in the moment I see them, in the space where I am found, I move, I listen and I observe.

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Photography is for me all the things that I do not want to forget in the moment I see them, in the space where I am found, I move, I listen and I observe.

It cannot be objective, but it can be a constant reminder that the world is not what we see. It is creation, communication, a narrative. In other words, it is the representation of a truth, a fact that you are aware of at the moment of the click.  A reality of your own that you feel the need to share with other people. A reality which can be different for someone else…

With this series of my photographs, which has also been captured in a photographic book, it is nothing more than an attempt to approach human moments that most often take place subconsciously. An effort that continues. Observing people from a distance, I feel that I am distancing myself and that I am becoming more objective more free!

The large horizon, the most complete picture of the space, creates an incomparable sense of harmony and form… a calm. So, many times you get the feeling of changing time with leaps into the past or the future.

The power of photography for me lies in symmetry, clarity and austerity in order to create emotions in its viewing, narratives reminiscent of music and poems we have heard or read. To be able to highlight the experiences of the photographer to bring to the surface his memories, because photography is their “recorder”.

I don’t believe and I don’t try to “make” a concept with my photos, I’m more interested in creating an atmosphere which, if it comes out charged, then the essence of the photo has many chances for the viewer to appear with the ultimate goal, to be collected. 

Too often I go back to the same places where I’ve been before and take pictures again and again, in an attempt to capture the “ideal” atmosphere I would like and  that may be different each time as it depends on the emotional and  my mental state that I am in the specific time, as well as the given scene that fleetingly passes before my eyes.

So, I try to approach my subject in an abstract way, putting as little information as possible in the composition of the frame isolating only the essential, with the greatest possible objectivity, so as to bring the human to the forefront, knowing that many times this may be… an illusion! Friedrich Nietzsche emphasizes that “Freedom is, to be able to have a distance from others.”

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