About photography:

Photography is mimicking (mimesis)  our memory (nemesis).  A process that is primarily mechanical, involves mechanic work of photo camera, and later work in a dark chamber, with chemicals, works on the principle of mechanics and chemistry. 

>>The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.<<

Guy Debord 1967, Society of the Spectacle,, Separation Perfected

New age obsession with photography is kind of Nemesis and living virtually in the past and  trying to memorize and remember everything, from our past, personally and universal. But the ways of this remembrance are telling us that present is changing the way past looks to us. Deeper relation with history is motivated with present. Why we want to remember and what to remember?

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About this blog: "STREET LIFE photography of Athens" consists mainly of some photographies that I made from 2010. to 2014. in Greece. It's collection of pictures from the streets,wall-graffiti, protests,banners, festivals, placates (posters), urban architecture, urban gardens, vehicles, people...in one word life in the city,in  Greek streets, full of contradicted attractions.

                                       

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                                                                                    by @lex from the earth

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