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27-Sep-2008: Autumn in Berlin, Germany.

The interesting thing in that photograph is the formalistic game between the lines of the road, the leafs and the shadows.

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14-Dec-2008: Parking place in Leipzig, Germany.

This photo has been selected from the following set of photos (contact sheet):
The building with graffiti at the background can been seen in the following color photograph (shotted by me with a cheap digital camera):

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16-Aug-2008: Fishes at the port of Rethimnon, Crete, Greece.

The following photographs are cropped version of the above photographs. Here you can observe the close-up / small details.The full set of the photographs shotted are shown in the following image:

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Jul-Aug 1999: Portraits from Syria (Aleppo, Maalola).

The second image is a crop of the first photograph. Both photos are from Aleppo, Syria. Aleppo is one of the most beautiful cities in Syria.
The above two portraits are from the village Maalola which is north of Damascus, at the borders with Lebanon.

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20-Feb-2005: Wind turbines in Rodope, north Greece, 16-Aug-2006: Wind turbines in Bozcaada / Tenedos island, Turkey.

These photos (having the wind turbines) are from the mountains of Rodope in north Greece (boarder between Greece and Bulgaria).
These wind turbines are from the Turkish island Bozcaada / Tenedos. Photographs from this place we have already seen in a previous post.

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4-Jun-2008: Yannis Tzortzis, ‘green project: phase 1′ photographic exposition at Tio Ilar.

More about the Green Project 2008 you will find in the link: http://greenproject2008.com. I made this video in the opening of the photographic exhibition of Yannis Tzortzis at Tio Ilar.

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2005: "The Beauty Project" a short film by photographer Steve Gatlin and Cory Pampalone.

"With the darkness of night serving as his studio, an enigmatic photographer uses everyday places and the human form to create his version of beauty in the world around him. For the past few years Steve Gatlin has been shooting photographs of nude people in public places at night. The photographs encompass what he calls The Beauty Project, an exploration of light, motion and the human form." text by sfgatlin.The above short film is aesthetically excellent. Something that I didn't like in the film, is that the photographic work of Steve Gatlin we see it in some short scenes and only at the ending titles we can see some his work. In the web site of Steve Gatlin and the web site http://www.thebeautyproject.com/ you can see his photos: Some biographic details of Steve Gatlin:

"Steve Gatlin was born in 1974 and grew up in South Florida until he moved away from home at the age of 18.

His first experience in photography came when he was nine and won a disk camera at a birthday party for one of his classmates. Steve used that camera regularly and would often have film developed that he had shot around the neighborhood. Ever since then Steve has always had a camera in hand and seen the world through its lens."

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25-May-2008: Interview with my friend / photographer Dan Turcu, Satu Mare, Romania.

Oveview of this 14minutes video (it is in English language): Dan Turcu is my friend since 1993. We were colleagues in the technical university of Bucharest. Today Dan Turcu works as a freelance photographer in Satu Mare, Romania (this city is at the boarders between Romania and Hungary/Ukraine). Dan Turcu has his own photographic studio and he makes photographic albums of students that they finished their high school. One of the "secrets" of Dan's work is that he modifies the photographs using a photo-editing software. In his modified photos, even an "ugly" person looks beautiful. The students like these modifications and they buy his photos.

Technical details of the video: We used the high definition camera του Dan, in his home on Sunday 25-May-2008. Unfortunately we didn't have enough time (just 2 hours because I had to rush and catch a train). Dan recently bought an HD-camera and a blue-ray recorder in order to make videos of weddings. We made this video together with Dan in order to explain to Dan how we make a video (shooting, thinking about story-telling etc).

We already saw in a previous post a photo of Dan from 1994:
Dan Turcu 1994 :-).

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24-25 March 2008: Yiannis + Mirto, Tzia-Kea island, Greece.

Probably the first 2 photographs (of the 4) are the best in this post. The full set of photos that have been shot are in the following image:

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18-Mar-2008: Lena Platonos, Photos from the release of the new CD "Diaries" at IANOS bookshop, Athens, Greece.

"Lena Platonos (http://www.myspace.com/lenaplatonos) has contributed much to the Greek electronic music scene with records such as Maskes Iliou, Gallup, Lepidoptera, at a time (mid 80s) when this kind of electronic narration of the Greek - and often of her personal-reality did not have the impact one would expect. "

This photos are from the release of the new CD "Diaries" at the bookshop IANOS in Athens on 18-March-2008. All the photos that I have shot are in the following "contact sheet":