George Vogiatzakis-Residents

In Residents, George Vogiatzakis introduces an atmosphere of a theatrical stage with nocturnal environments, almost fake, almost painted, a shadow theatre, a projection, a post-Charlesque set, a construction that, although digital, is at the same time a form of handmade photography.

In the images of the series, Voyatzakis places people already photographed, which he retrieves from the past, in urban environments of the present, in the city. There is no doubt a sense of loss, as the form of the city he proposes is an older form that marginally survives. It is the form of a near past that touches us and we touch it. Voyatzakis photographs it to defend it, as the people who emerge into his city - as if they have ceased to be invisible - look us in the eye as if to remind us of their place and their relationship to the place. There is in their presence a sense of origin that fills the images in the series with nostalgia, as if the photographer's childhood was defined by it all.

His images have been cut off from their reference to reality, they are a narrative, the only reality they convey is their own.

The reality that their creator retrieves from his imagination, from his memory.

Or all of us.

Costas Goudis