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Portrait - NOMINEE: Areta Peristeri
Bad Girls
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Metamorphosis: “a complete change of character, appearance or condition”
In my photographs, I use my own self because it is my most valuable friend.
I have chosen a clear white background that does not distract the viewer’s gaze, ordinary objects and faces with extraordinary features that have become my allies in a journey of self-knowledge. Characters who trouble me, who are distinctive, who have always made me seek them out, analyze them and compare myself to them in order to erase an old trauma and achieve an internal catharsis. I impersonate other characters, because I cannot escape my own body. Why am I ailing, while others don’t?
My transformations are both a symptom and a cure, a total repression of every concern, a deterioration that helps identify the deepest reason of the current situation.
Photography as a therapy. I started photographing, when I became sick.
To me, it is the reality in which I am obliged to give reasons to nobody, my cure. “BAD GIRLS” is the emancipation of myself from the self-imposed prudery. It is Me.
About author:
I am a photographer based in Thessaloniki, Greece.
I was born in 1994, in Chalkidiki, Greece.
I began taking photography courses when I was 20 years old in Stereosis School of Photography in Thessaloniki, Greece, along with studying economics (University of Macedonia) and Strategic Product Design (International Hellenic University).
I have experimented both in digital and analogue photography.
I have participated in three group exhibitions at Stereosis School of Photography.
I have worked for the fashion industry, both street style and studio.
My expertise? Self-portraits.
In my photographs, I use my own self because it is my most valuable friend.
I have chosen a clear white background that does not distract the viewer’s gaze, ordinary objects and faces with extraordinary features that have become my allies in a journey of self-knowledge. Characters who trouble me, who are distinctive, who have always made me seek them out, analyze them and compare myself to them in order to erase an old trauma and achieve an internal catharsis. I impersonate other characters, because I cannot escape my own body. Why am I ailing, while others don’t?
My transformations are both a symptom and a cure, a total repression of every concern, a deterioration that helps identify the deepest reason of the current situation.
Photography as a therapy. I started photographing, when I became sick.
To me, it is the reality in which I am obliged to give reasons to nobody, my cure. “BAD GIRLS” is the emancipation of myself from the self-imposed prudery. It is Me.
About author:
I am a photographer based in Thessaloniki, Greece.
I was born in 1994, in Chalkidiki, Greece.
I began taking photography courses when I was 20 years old in Stereosis School of Photography in Thessaloniki, Greece, along with studying economics (University of Macedonia) and Strategic Product Design (International Hellenic University).
I have experimented both in digital and analogue photography.
I have participated in three group exhibitions at Stereosis School of Photography.
I have worked for the fashion industry, both street style and studio.
My expertise? Self-portraits.