Trinity Grammar School’s Delmar Gallery will host a photography exhibition featuring some of Greece’s most talented up-and-coming photographers as part of the Sydney-wide Head On Photo Festival next month.
The exhibition, co-curated by Jacob Aue Sobol of Magnum Photos and the Photography Centre of Thessaloniki in Greece, explores the meaning of ‘home’, was officially opened by the Ambassador of Greece to Australia Haris Dafaranos last Saturday 9 May.
Twenty-one Greek photographers were invited to participate in a five-day workshop with Mr Sobol in the northern hemisphere summer of 2013, raising profound questions about the meaning of home, what it represents and how one can portray their own feeling of home in an unfamiliar setting.
At the workshop, the photographers were tasked with finding and capturing a ‘home’ through their lens at the small village of Lafkos in Pilio, a place none of them had visited before.
After a successful showing in Thessaloniki in February, Trinity Grammar School’s Delmar Gallery is thrilled to have the opportunity to present these compelling images to an Australian audience.
“Artists not only used their camera to take pictures but also as an instrument to create intimacy and closeness in a poetic, direct and unsentimental way,” Jacob Aue Sobol said.
“In spite of photography’s seemingly concrete form they exposed layers in people that are not immediately visible, but nonetheless shape who we are and give meaning to our lives.
“Home is a place of memories. It is where we have our roots. It is a place we keep returning to.
“If we want to learn more about ourselves and the world we live in, this is where we look – in our own backyard. The place where our personality is shaped and dreams are built,” he added.
This free exhibition features over 70 photographs that were captured during the workshop and over the following months.
“This exhibition offers a moving, complex and personal insight into Greek culture today and contemporary Greek photography,” gallery curator Catherine Benz said.
Participating photographers: Panos Arvanitakis, Manos Chrisovergis, Sakis Dazanis, Dimitra Hatzipavlou, Michalis Kalaitzakis, Maria Kappatou, Thanassis Karatzas, Vasilis Karkatselis, Dareos Khalili, Nikos Kotzampasakis, Efthimis Mouratidis, Eleni Onassoglou, Georgia Panakia, Andreas Paradise, Ariadni Pediotaki, Thanassis Raptis, Panagiotis Skalkotos, Dimitris Symeonidis, Lukas Vasilikos, Christos Vatalachos, Lily Zoumpouli.
The exhibition will be open from Wednesday to Sunday, 12.00 pm to 5.00 pm until Sunday 7 June 2015. Free admission.
For further information, contact Delmar Gallery (Trinity Grammar School, 144 Victoria St, Ashfield, NSW) call 02 9581 6070 or email delmargallery@trinity.nsw.edu.au