Some words from the photographer

“The world only exists when it is shared” as a Greek poet said.

Interest in photography came late in my life. I began travelling and photographing places and people that were distant from the “modern” western way of life, following another, different, course. I am most excited by people, places and cultures that have not been overtaken yet by the homogeneity of the west. I love the color and texture of those places, the vitality of life and their rituals and symbolisms. Ι shoot what moves me; I shoot from my heart to tell the visual stories I love and care about, discovering what it means seeing rather than merely looking. For me photos, and more specifically people’s photos, are emotional experiences. With my camera, I am searching to find not only what separates us from these people, but also what unites us. No matter how many journeys one might take, whichever part of the planet they may find themselves, every time they will see the cheeky smile of a child, the impetuous gaze of the adults and the stoic, welcome expression of the elders demonstrating that, under the successive layers of culture, we all have the same face, the same voice, the same body.

With photography we cannot change the world, but we can change minds and touch hearts. That is the reason why I’m a photographer… to give a voice to those in silence.

"… Sometimes my camera acts as a mirror. With it I can collect light and express what can’t be described with words. With it I can free myself from the world. In these images you can see my heart, these images are a ladder to my dreams", as quoted from Gregory Colbert’s "Ashes and Snow". I believe he is expressing poetically and with great accuracy every amateur and professional photographer, every person who has sensed the magic of capturing in a frame a little something from the light of people and nature.