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The aftermath of a continues war
Photo © Yiorgos Doukanaris
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How a more personal project can be develop and be part of the biggest issues that afflicting our society ? Having my great grandfather leaving Smyrni in 1922 and my grandfather and father becoming refugees 52 years later in Cyprus, I consider this personal history been a part of a larger problem that it is not appeared in the last few years, but now is in its most intense form.
So I want to continue and develop the work I already do and have been doing for the last year and place it in the part of the recent history. As photographers we document the world around us. The moments and the people that are living beside as are unique and deserve equal exposure.
“The aftermath of a continues war” is not just a documentary record of portraits and snapshots of people, whom life affected and changed radically after they left their countries in order to stay alive and protect their families, but is a sociological and historical testimony of how people in the area of Middle East and Europe affected for all their lives after becoming refugees.
Some people would never be able to recover from this traumatic experiences they lived years ago, some others are still struggled to find their way to a safer place. Some people lost their families before they leave their countries, some on their way to the other countries and some just don’t know the destiny of their loved ones.
It is a wide project that covers in depth the aftermath of people who became refugees many years ago and of people who just learn what is losing everything in just some weeks or even days. The problems are the same sometimes but different, experience in a different way sadness, grief, loneliness, friendship, memory.
MA Photography University of Brighton
BA Primary Education University of Athens
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How a more personal project can be develop and be part of the biggest issues that afflicting our society ? Having my great grandfather leaving Smyrni in 1922 and my grandfather and father becoming refugees 52 years later in Cyprus, I consider this personal history been a part of a larger problem that it is not appeared in the last few years, but now is in its most intense form.
So I want to continue and develop the work I already do and have been doing for the last year and place it in the part of the recent history. As photographers we document the world around us. The moments and the people that are living beside as are unique and deserve equal exposure.
“The aftermath of a continues war” is not just a documentary record of portraits and snapshots of people, whom life affected and changed radically after they left their countries in order to stay alive and protect their families, but is a sociological and historical testimony of how people in the area of Middle East and Europe affected for all their lives after becoming refugees.
Some people would never be able to recover from this traumatic experiences they lived years ago, some others are still struggled to find their way to a safer place. Some people lost their families before they leave their countries, some on their way to the other countries and some just don’t know the destiny of their loved ones.
It is a wide project that covers in depth the aftermath of people who became refugees many years ago and of people who just learn what is losing everything in just some weeks or even days. The problems are the same sometimes but different, experience in a different way sadness, grief, loneliness, friendship, memory.
About author:
Freelance photographer based in Cyprus, Greece, UK.MA Photography University of Brighton
BA Primary Education University of Athens
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