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BULB PHOTO CONTEST - 1st edition

Dear friends, the BULB annual contest for identifying new associate members is now coming to an end. Already 9 among you have been announced. One more winner is to be added to our family. This last choice was the most difficult to make (9 pictures were ex-aequo). This demonstrates the high quality...
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A Sifnos Tale

When we have set route for Sifnos, the first thing that came to my mind was to find the spot of  HCB's famous picture. I Google searched other similar "expeditions". To my surprise, I only found one "re-enactement" of the picture with no geographic information at all. Incidentally,  I...
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The reality suspending moment

The reality suspending moment manifests itself when the picture puts our certainties in doubt, our beliefs in suspension. In art, the freedom to contradict oneself is the artist's first step to revive creation and the last refuge to avoid sterility. The breakthrough in art is operated when our...
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Nikos

Nikos passed away a few years ago. It was the second time I felt orphan. Last Saturday it was his name day. I couldn't visit him at the cemetery.   He taught me how to look at a picture. Just that or all of that.   There are people who exist in our life and make even lighter the...
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Early years

I am looking back at my snapshots in the early years. "I am looking back" is already a pleonasm. We look back at each photograph taken. A photograph is the past. We cannot possess reality (the present) but we can possess photographs (the past). This way we can face our past as the Greeks were...
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