Panayiotis Lamprou

Panayiotis Lamprou, Avato Geraniou, 2009, Photography (Digital Chromogenic Fujicolor Chrystal Archive Print), 85 x 85 cm

This photo is part of the project Avato Geraniou which took part in the centre of Athens in 2009, on Geraniou str. when the site was a ghetto for drug dealing, prostitution and gunrunning. The image was found on the entrance of a migrant shop from Pakistan.

"If the image of the actual is obvious then the image of the photograph appears obvious. The literal and the transfer so become one. The interpretation is based solely on how much one can endure to see."

Panayiotis Lamprou

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Panayiotis Lamprou was born in Athens, 1975, with origins from Kallithea, Filiata, in Thesprotia. In 1998 he was introduced to history and aesthetic view of photography at the Photography Circle in Athens. In 1999 he continued his studies at the CRAF (Center of Reasearch and Archival of Photography) in Spilimbergo, Italy. In 2004 he became a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts if Greece. Panayiotis Lamprou lives in Athens.

“Through photography we perceive perpetually moments for qualitative viewing. It describes our relationship with the present and explains the value of memory as the distance between presence and ignorance.”