Kostis Argyriadis invites the spectator to feel these images rather than understand them. Edited through the essence of an imaginary island and the echoes of trauma, his work reflects a timeless space where past, present, and future meet. Ithaca, as he calls it, reveals a rebirth into beauty after profound transformation.

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Kostis Argyriadis: You do not need to understand these pictures; you can instead feel them. They were edited and sequenced using the essence of an imaginary island and the aftermath of trauma. Imagine a central core, something like a visual mantra, a ritual, guiding the need for these pictures. The past, future, and present exist equally in these photos. No fear interrupts the eye; no ghosts exist in this story.

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Life is a mirror or a movie; it is what we forgive and what we forget, what we love and what alleviates pain, a glimpse of the unknown, a dive into a black lake. I had to experience the return to my life after both physical and psychological trauma, but when I came back, it was all new, different, strange, and beautiful. I call this Ithaca.

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About

Kostis Argyriadis (1981) is a photographer from Thessaloniki, Greece. He attended ESP Photography School on a scholarship and studied under Stratos Kalafatis. His photographic vision focuses on the triviality of everyday urban life and its patterns, along with the absurd and inconsequential aspects of reality and its transformations.

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www.kostisargyriadis.com