Description
Séance – 1
A collection of analog still life photographs, in an old sea house.
Destination, Kea.
I know this Greek island well.
But it has always something new to reveal to me.
This time it was not the landscapes or the sea nor the trees or the rocks.
It was a house. An old traditional house in the village of “Chora”, large and proud, from the middle of the 19th century exposed to salt and winds.
This house has hosted me many times but now it spoke to me in its secret language.
This time I was touched by the aura of its history and of the people who lived there.
In a few minutes, I had already decided that I would shoot a collection of still life photographs with any object I could find in the house and had some story to tell me.
I kept each frame simple by setting the objects usually in pairs.
I felt like I was leaving more space and time in the stories they could tell.
I imagined each object like an actor who came on a dark stage to say his monologue or his own lines of dialogue interacting with the space, with the camera, with me.
For hours, I conversed this way with the house and its spirits, in this quirky one “Séance”!
