Psycho [ logic ]
| “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” (Robert Frank)
Iraklis Kougemitros speaks another language. A language that we don’t speak, but yet we understand. Because we do not always need words to communicate deeply. We need stimuli, symbols, concepts, images, emotions.
Iraklis finds all of the above on the street. He starts a dialogue with the shadow and the light, with humans as a figure and as an idea, with the buildings and their lines. He starts a dialogue full of opposition. A dialogue that is open to the viewer.
He doesn’t photograph the moment, he photographs the history of the moment.
He photographs our relationship with the urban environment. And he presents us with a brand new reality that does not contradict ours but coexists with ours. Even completes it. And Iraklis’s reality lies in the details, in the tenths of a second. It is impressive.
Iraklis introduces himself as a street photographer (among other things). He walks on the same street we walk on, but that our eyes stubbornly refuse to see. Could it be that he photographs his own internal street?
To be honest, now that we come to think of it, Iraklis does not speak another language. He creates a new one; a language that is completely his own.
He names it Psycho [ logic ]. Let's listen to it… |
Elephant Design
photos by: Eleftheria Katsianou
Elephant design,
Tatoiou 134, 14671, Nea Erithrea
Jan 21 - Feb 15, 2022
ALL-DAY
(IT IS A WINDOW EXHIBITION) or you can BOOK YOUR VISIT
*The event will operate following COVID-19 health and safety protocols.
Monday-Wednesday: 11:00 – 16:00
Tuesday-Thursday-Friday: 11:00 – 20:00
Saturday with booking and Sunday closed
|| CLOSING EVENT | SATURDAY 12 FEB, 2022 | 17:00 - 21:00 ||
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CURATED BY: ELEPHANT DESIGN
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Kougemitros
2022, IRAKLIS KOUGEMITROS, Athens
https://iraklisk-htakat.com/
•Winner: SPA2018,Featureshoot2019,SWPA2020
2°ISPF2020 •Finalist: Lensculture StreetAwards2019 -
ISPF2019,MSPF2018&2019 •ipa2019
Iraklis Kougemitros was born in Athens, Greece where he still works and lives.
He has studied music technology and saxophone, and since 2009 photography has become an essential mean to express himself.
One can see some of his work on Instagram iraklis k - htakat and on his personal website.
He has taken part in International photo contests with great success and was a finalist in the street photography category. Some of the most important competitions are:
- “MSPF”, The Miami street photography festival Awards, 2018 + 2019
- LensCulture Street Photography Awards, 2019
- “IPA” International Photography Awards, honorable mention 2019, for the series "psych/logic"
- “ISPF”, Italian street photo festival, 2019
He was also a winner in the Street Photography Series project at the following:
- Street photo awards, 2018
- Featureshot, 2019
- National Award Winner Greece 2020 for Sony World Photography Awards, “SWPA”
and
- “ISPF”, Italian Street Photo Festival, 2nd place for “Street Photography Series”, 2020
Iraklis is a self-taught photographer and likes to capture on his camera elements of the urban environment. For him, detail is important and plays a leading role, while humans are most often present in his frames as figures. His main tools are shadow, color, and geometry˙
with photography he always tries to tell short stories and through that to explain and redefine “the meanings”.
