SUNDAY 2 OCT 2022, 11:00
MUNICIPAL GARDEN OF KAVALA
#eimai_i_poli_mou
Photo City Walk
Editing/Design: Nikos Zoakis
Coordination: Members of the Kavala
Photo Club
Meeting Point: Municipal Garden of
Kavala
Sunday 2/10/22, Time: 11:00
In case of rain, the event will be postponed to next Sunday 8/10 at the same time.
The conversation between the urban
environment and the citizen is a daily
interaction. The quality of life is experienced from the moment we leave the door of our house in the morning and evolves through the joys and difficulties, the beautiful and the ugly, that we encounter in all the routes of our daily life. People, buildings, sidewalks, our neighborhood, our transportation, our commute, our entertainment, make up the
puzzle of our lives.
But what is our part and what is the
interaction with our city? How does the
citizen of Kavala see his city? How are
they positioned? Inside it or opposite it?
It is an opportunity to reflect and dwell
on the issues that concern the citizens
of Kavala... the aesthetics, the safety,
the relationship between pedestrians
and vehicles, cleanliness, sports
facilities, the development of public
transport, the city's monuments.
With this event, we invite citizens to
stand actively, throughout the
photographic process, in the space that
surrounds them, to make their
relationship with the urban environment
in which they live more conscious.
Through a photographic walk in the
neighborhoods of the city, with the
company and guidance of the members
of the Photography Club, they will have
the opportunity to hear about
photography and its techniques and
then depict elements of their
relationship with their region, to create
a modern portrait of it, or simply to stop
for a while at what they walk past every
day and take a look at it.
So grab your cell phone or your camera
and follow us!
This action is the curator's participation
in the Tale of X cities workshop for the
year 2022.
Nikos Zoakis was born in 1972 in the
city of Komotini. He first got involved
with photography during his studies and
has never ceased to be fascinated by it.
He travels to Northern Greece and
photographs everything he likes,
everything he considers important. He
has a particular interest in landscape
photography, where, using elements of
intense symbolism in his frames, he
captures and describes an area that for
centuries has been a crossroads of
people and cultures.
He has participated in many group
photography exhibitions in Northern
Greece and Athens. He is actively
involved in the Tale of X Cities
activities, an initiative of the Common
Lab of the Goethe-Institut.
He is interested in the creation of works
of art, based on the participation of
citizens, in actions and initiatives that,
through art, can open a fruitful dialogue
with society.
Awareness, participation and
coexistence of people, public space
and aesthetics are central axes of each
of his ideas.
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