

"Fading Fury": The upcoming Photo Book by Jehsong Baak
(για ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ) In a previous post we introduced Jehsong Baak, an exceptional american photographer, currently living in Paris. Baak is about to publish his third photo book, where the selected photographs offer an introspective look reflecting upon the leftovers of a distant past. As the photographer states: "It seems the time has come to travel back almost 30 years to New York City to rediscover my younger self, a lost soul filled with rage and longing. Friends,


'What is Art?' - An inspiring text by Dimitris Mytaras
Dimitris Mytaras - modern Greek painter (για ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ) Art looks like a social phenomenon, but in essence it is an almost natural phenomenon, something like a volcanic eruption. It does not record history, neither does it make one; it does not precede its era, nor does it follow it. Art is love, in its broader sense; it is the expression and the overflow of completeness. It does not obey theories, which it constantly contradicts; it has its own reasoning and is no


The aura of antiquity remains. Photographs by Josef Koudelka
JORDANIA. Amman. Copyright: Josef Koudelka / Magnum Photos (για ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ) There is a peculiar aura that surrounds certain antiquity remains; a sense of an indefinite existence, a sublime feeling, an ancient secret, an eternal fear; an interplay between immortality and decay. Often, those ancient monuments constitute more of an indication of the desire for eternal life and of the cruelty of Time, than of an evidence of human greatness. They pronounce an unavailing