TimeSilence Photography Friends - WINTER 2021

TIMESILENCE PHOTOGRAPHY friends QUARTELY PUBLICATION - WINTER 2021 photo : Vassilis Koltoukis

CONTENTS 05 TIMESILENCE PHOTOGRAPHY friends / 2 06 78 EDITORS’ LETTER 240 MEETING WITH AN ARTIST THE MONTHLY PROJECTS MEETING WITH THE TEAM

WINTER 2021 / 3 FEATURED ARTIST TASOS BIRIS CONTRIBUTORS ACHILLEAS PETROVAS / ALEXANDROS SAKELLARIS / ANNA DIMITROKALI ANNA TARTAGLIA / ANTHOULA KOUTOUPI / DIMITRIS MYLONAS EDUARDO MANUEL LEAL VALES / ELENI KOUTLA / GARO KALAYDJIAN IOANNIS ZAFEIRIS / KONSTANTINOS MOULOS / KOSTAS GALANIS KOSTAS LAGOS / KOSTAS VASILILERIS / MENI SEIRIDOU OLGA PAPALEXANDROU / RAIA PETROVA / SAKIS MOUCHTARIDES SOTIRIOS GKONIS / VASSILIS KOLTOUKIS / VLASSIS MAVRAGANIS XRISTINA STEFA / XRYSA SOUGIOUL / YIANNIS KRIKIS

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WINTER 2021 / 5 WELCOME! My name is Gregory Moutsios and I am the creator and the In this issue our guest is Tasos Biris. A wonderer and a moment owner of the capturer, of an inner photographic exploration. Time Silence Photography Next, we present to you the three monthly projects and a choice of the participants in our group. Facebook page as well as the founder of the Facebook artist group: The topics are as follows: Time Silence Photography friends December 2020: “Minimal Spaces” initiated in December 2019. January 2021: “Essay on the Useless” More about myself and a sample of my work can be found on February 2021: “Free - Artist’s choice” my Facebook page or on my website www.timesilence.com . The topics were freely developed by the artists presented The edition you are reading right now is the fifth issue of an here, under the commitment to consist of a series of at least attempt to gather project-based art works being submitted to three photographs and with some consistency among them. the above mentioned group on a monthly basis. This effort will continue at this rate on a quarterly basis with The e-zine is being published for more than a year and I’m the hope that it will be published in due time. very happy that during this period the contributions increased significantly. We would like to thank all the contributors for the continuous support and their exceptional artwork. At this point I’d like to welcome to the editing team the three friends, collaborators and excellent photographers as well: The group is open to anyone who wants to become a member. Anna Papachristou, Fani Karanikola and Yria Chorianopoulou. Its basic prerequisites are photography and visual arts , a Without their support you would probably not be reading this passion for artistic communication and an open mind. So, issue. I thank them very much! enjoy my friends’ work and doubt not that we will be very happy to communicate with you.

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WINTER 2021 / 7 Tasos Biris A wonderer and a moment capturer, of an inner photographic exploration Tasos Biris is based in Northern Evia. He studied Civil Engineering at P.A.D.A., Computer Programming at CONTROL DATA and photography at FOCUS School of Photography and New Media. He has attended seminars on “Environmental Management“ (ELKEPA) and “Issues of Civil Protection and Management of Natural and Technological Disasters“ at EKPA. He has also attended training programs and seminars on Photography in Art and Philosophy, such as: • “Art and Culture“ at the Aegean University • “Art therapy with an emphasis on the visual arts” at the Aegean University • “Photography: Theoretical Approaches and Personal Style“ with Dr. Vassilis Kandas at EKPA • “Perception and Art: Applications in Photography“ at EKPA • “Photography and Advertising“ at EKPA • “Geotourism“ EKPA • “Marketing and Brand“ at EKPA • “What is language? From intellect to voice“ at Mathesis • “The phenomenology of perception“ by Merleau-Ponty with Dr. George Xiropaidis • “Teaching of Fine Arts“ with Dr. Ourania Kouvou at EKPA • and a mentorship with Achilleas Nasios on “Photography Editing“. His photographic work has been presented in print and electronic press such as: • B.U.L.B. • Kiosk der demokratie • Eyeshot_magazine • Phases magazine

TIMESILENCE PHOTOGRAPHY friends / 8 • PhotoCircle of members of B.U.L.B. in the “M.S.P.F. Miami Street Photog- • iFocus.gr raphy Festival”, USA. • “Photographos” Magazine issue 8, March-April ’91, 1st He has had solo photography exhibitions in the Baths of Aid- ipsos at “Kyma’’, in the winery “Vriniotis’’ at Gialtra, Aidip- prize. sos, curated by Roula Dimou, and a solo photography and • In the Doctoral Thesis of Argyri Katsaridou “Photography painting exhibition as part of the “Cultural August” festival in Istiaia. in Greece 1970-2000: The evolution of theoretical dis- course and institutions“ He has published articles about Photography on: • Joint participation curating and editing, with photogra- • E-magazine: “iFocus into the World of photography”, in pher Makis Makris, of the book “The Greeks”, of B.U.L.B. the column “Photo Graphy ΖΩ” His work is also published in the online photographic maga- • His blog: https://photographyzo.blogspot.com zine S.C.P. eZine, in which he was also a curator. • And his website: https://www.tasosbiris.com His work has been presented at the Arta Photography Group LINKS at the Municipal Art Gallery of Arta “Giannis Moralis’’, at • Website the PHOTOPIA Photographic Team at the National Research Foundation, and at PhotoCircle at the Benaki Museum. https://www.tasosbiris.com • Facebook Group “Photo Graphy ΖΩ” He has also participated in group photography exhibitions, such as “Inside - Out’’ in Athens, curated by Achilleas Nasios, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1561286480556163/ and was invited to the group exhibition of the Arta Photog- • Instagram raphy Group during ’’Photography Days’’ festival curated by Achilleas Nasios and Eugenia Aravantinou, in the group exhi- https://www.instagram.com/tasosbiris/ bition of B.U.L.B. members in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the group ex- • LinkedIn hibition ’’Photo Works’’, in Athens, curated by Vassilis Geron- takos, in the group exhibition of the PhotoCircle “Dreams’’ in https://bit.ly/3uQY4xC Athens, curated by Platon Rivelis, and in the group exhibition • Blog https://photographyzo.blogspot.com

WINTER 2021 / 9 I have become a wonderer and a moment capturer, of an inner photographic exploration of the land and its people. I capture light and its relation to shapes and forms. I search for the infinitely small moment where we can taste beauty and incorporate it once and for all in our private eternity. I search for words that will help me manifest the poetic logos of photography. Photography for me becomes an eternal pursue of the Human Being, a journey to the centers of my soul, a path to transcendence of this virtual world toward the world of poetry, so that one day I could speak of the unspoken. Light capturing is one of the reasons I exist.

TIMESILENCE PHOTOGRAPHY friends / 10 TASOS BIRIS MY MANIFESTO “I’m an eye. A Tasos eye. I, with a machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever. I’m in constant movement. I ap- proach and pull away from objects, I creep in them and behind them. I move in parallel spaces, I fall and rise with my falling and rising emotions. This is I, my eye and the machine’s eye, maneuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations, Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be, I am moving along with the universe. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world mystique to you. Inspired from Dziga’s Vertov, Soviet film director–Kino-Eye Manifesto (1923)

WINTER 2021 / 11 INSIGHTS “Let silence be the art you practice” Rumi

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