Greek photographer Yannis Skoulas will participate at the Athens Photo Festival 09 with an exhibition titled “Going Down North”.
Photos from Norway and Greece will be presented side by side creating a trip from South to North and vice versa.
The exhibition is supported by the Embassy and the Norwegian Institute at Athens and will be held at the “Agathi” gallery from 4th-18th November 2009.
Yannis Skoulas was born in Athens, where he lives and works. A member of the Visual Arts Chamber of Greece since 1996. He worked for the Athens Festival for twenty years and at present he works for the National Tourism Organisation. He has published the following albums of photographs/monographs: Stations, Trains and Horizons, Themelio ed., Sea and Stone, Lighthouses of Greece, Greek & English publication, Ammos ed., Old Cars, Ammos ed., Crete, Centuries carved in stone, Mikros Nautilos & Kastalia ed. and Lighthouses of Greece, Christakis ed. His works have also been included in nine other albums of photographs. He has to his credit thirteen personal exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He has taken part in six group exhibitions, and contributes travel articles, both text and photographs, to magazines.
This is what Mr Skoulas himself says about the exhibition:
"A journey to two countries which to all appearances don’t have anything in common. A journey which is repeated until it becomes a journey into yourself, or the very self of life. Because the journey is one, wherever it takes place, by whatever means it is carried out, even by that of the mind. And you, you continue to journey. You go on meeting looks, noticing people. Do you see what I see? Is what you see there? Do you know which journey it is you’re making? When you are out there, the contrasts are blunted, the shared features are sharpened, impressions are transformed, and memories get mixed up. One thing is certain: when the directions of the gaze coincide, the eyes are not always looking at the same point; and people cross one another’s paths even if they never meet..."
