THE GRAVES OF OUR ALLIES

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s architectural narrative masterpiece “Invisible Cities”, my series “The Graves of our Allies” balances between exile and life, presence and absence, in an urban city plan that suffers from its own faults.

Shot amidst the first wave of the pandemic, examining the briefly forgotten southern Athenian suburbs and its people, this series aims to portrait a city that has been abandoned. A much more insightful look on a series of feelings experienced during the first lockdown.

“You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.”

-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972