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PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
Portrait photography is a fascinating and beautiful process. Since all people are different, I try to approach them all in a special way, trying to understand what makes them unique. I want my photos to reflect their feelings and beliefs, creating portraits that inspire. My goal is to capture honest and clean images that show the true self. It is important for me to build a relationship of trust with the person I am photographing, making them feel relaxed and confident. This way, they can show their best side and let their personality shine.
JB LEULLIER
Jb Leullier who came to the island of Paros for the first time during the summer of 2004. Meeting the English sculptor Gyp Mills in 2009 opened up his horizons to marble sculpting and to a new beauty of the island. He says: “Living on the island all year around procures lots of emotion as a foreigner working with marble. After so many years, its like having a relationship with the beautiful Island. With ups and downs, but still I am here doing more and more what I like ! And i believe ‘She’ (the island) allows me to… She let me discover some of her beauty. The meeting with people here also has inspired my perception of the natural environment, the way how to live and to enjoy the basic things even more. I perceive those forms with curves, lots of kindness and strength also.
NIKOS SYNODIS
Nikos Synodis was born in Mytilene, where he became involved in painting as an apprentice to George Lolosides, who collaborated with his photographer father Stelios Synodis for the retouching of portraits. He has now lived in Paros for many years, which has given him intense emotions and introduced him to the beauty of the Cyclades, having passed through Crete, Kefalonia and Chios. Always an islander. He has had many solo exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus and France.
SANDY PISANTE AMARIGLIO
Sandy Pisante Amariglio, who from a very small age she loved the Cycladic islands and its people.
She says: Since I was a little girl, I was attracted by the island’s people sweetness and warmth. I had a nanny from Naxos, called Andromache. And Yorgos S. who was from Paros and was working in our house, was like a father to me.
About her work “Echos of Archilochus”:
Wandering through the paths of Paros, between the wild vegetation dried by the summer sun, Sandy wonders what Archilochus saw while living on the island. In her ceramics, she attempted to capture the essence of his experience combining it with her own to capture some of the colours of the sky and the sea, the beauty in randomness and the details of nature, the beauty in the imperfections and the wounds left exposed in the light.
DIMITRIS KALANDRANIS
Dimitris Calandranis who was born in Cairo, Egypt. He studied accounting, hotel management and foreign languages. In Greece, he worked for 30 years for Swissair. Since his retirement, he permanently lives in Paros, where he has developed an intense social activity. At the same time, he paints, composes and plays music – trumpet, flute, percussion – and his favorite sport is ping pong. Since 2000, he has been writing short stories and essays for ‘Paros News’ and ‘Paros Voice’. He has published three novels, essays and poetry collections, most of which have been translated into English, French and Italian. The sculptures in our exhibition are completely new experiments.
MILITSA TOMASOVITS
Militsa Tomasovits who is an interior architect, lighting designer and an artist, born and raised in Athens, Greece. She is currently a PhD researcher at School of Applied Arts, Hellenic Open University of Athens where she attained her Master of Arts in lighting design and multimedia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in interior architecture, decorative arts and design from the Faculty of Applied Arts and Design, Technological Educational Institute of Athens. She has also obtained her diploma in byzantine iconography and she has worked for several years as a ceramic and porcelain painter in Paros. She currently works as a tutor and holds painting classes to young students. She has spent a significant amount of time in Paros, where she firstly experienced her love in painting flowers. Her mother was the person who imparted, during the years, the knowledge of the healing properties of Greek flowers and herbs and how to locate these natural treasures in the natural Mediterranean landscape. Her passion and love for nature are channelled through her paintings, which give an insight of how nature can positively affect someone inward and outward. Her purpose is to show a personal vision of the world.
IRINA DOROKHOVA
Irina Dorohova is a professional artist from Russia. She currently lives in Paros. She creates oil paintings, graphic design, furniture and many more. She has taken part in group exhibitions in Switzerland, France, Italy, Russia and China. She has held two solo exhibitions in Paros (Paroikia and Naoussa). She just opened an art gallery – workshop in Alyki.
KLEOPATRA MOURSELA
Kleopatra Moursela lives and works in Athens and she works in the Athens School of Fine Arts. She has spent many summers since her childhood on Paros. She studied interior design, stage design and graphic arts and continued her studies in painting and completed a two years Master’s Degree in visual arts. In the realm of her art, she constructs colored abstract landscapes infused with a spiritual essence, where geometric structures weave together to transcend the boundaries of a tangible reality, composing a grid of senses, memories, space, colours and time.
Her artworks direction moves from a constructivist logic to arrive at a perspective of broad linearistic caliber within which manages to give substance to intriguing structural and chromatic visual multiplication, visual opportunities and kinesthetic intervention. Challenging harmonious color combinations, balanced with interconnected structural shapes, in a rhythmic relationship of color levels.
ARSENIS SKIADAS
Arsenis Skiadas grew up in Alyki and he is a firefighter. He adores and protects the nature of the island in any way he can having the above capacity. He also loves the tree juniperus phoenicea, which is why his works are made of remnants of its wood. He has managed to make a nursery of juniperus phoenicea. He plays music and is the president of the cultural association of Agkairia, Paros.
AMALIA FERENTINOU
Amalia Ferentinou studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Mytaras, Kanakakis, Tetsis and hagiography with Xynopoulos. She has held seven solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibitions abroad and in Greece with EETE, in ART ATHINA, and in the Platforms project (with Event Horizon) from 2017 until now and in many others. She lives and works in Paros.
ANNA MITROGIANNI
Anna Mitrogianni grew up on Paros, where she lives and works. From the young age of 11, when her father gave her a camera, she discovered the world around her through the lens. She shoots in natural light.
STELLA MELETOPOULOU
Stella Meletopoulou studied drawing and illustration at ESAG Penninghen and Academie Charpentier in Paris (1983-7), worked as an illustrator in Athens and then studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts with teachers Z. Arvanitis and A. Antonopoulos, sculpture with N. Tranos and iconography with P. Samios (2002-8). She lives and works in Athens but her ties to Paros are very strong for many years.
NIKOS SARRIS
Nikos Sarris grew up and lives in Paros. He has always lived and worked on the island. In the following excerpt from the book Tasty boiling water (Entypis, November 2017) he describes his love for stones: “And the stone attracted my attention a lot, so imposing with its hardness and omnipresence, with its unyielding character and the strength of its forms. When you crush it for building material with your motorized rodents, gnawing away at whole hills like a mouse at its prey, when you dynamite it with your uncontrolled rams, all you care about is doing your job, and so much for the clapboard. But when you build it rough, you take care of it, for then the stone acquires a face, which a good workman must know how to detect.