Artwork description:

Photography: Digital, Black & White, Manipulated on Paper.

This series was pluriawarded at Sony International Photography Awards 2018 - Tokyo Foto Awards 2018 First Place absolute and Gold Metal, Lens Culture Editors Selection - Honorable Mention Monochrome Photography Awards - Zeiss Awards Editors Selection.

Exhibited at Blank Wall Gallery Athens 2018.

“I am a Dreamer” is a project started in 2017, it is a conceptual series of surreal portraits interpreted in an ironic key and inspired by adolescence.
Adolescence is a crucial time when the identities are being challenged where young people spend time with their reflection and accept their appearance. The kids contemplate the world with the eyes of fantasy imagining characters or comics and identifying in them as they do with life, so a balloon turns into a person and is ready to fly, as society impose to grow with the brain in box, or forces us to wear masks, express fears and dreams of growing and discovering the world through personal and creative experience with sense of humor and playfulness and a touch of surreal poetry. We often grow up and educate our children according to the preconceptions that are imposed on us by mass media and society, while the most important thing is to teach them to be free. As Magritte said: “Freedom is the possibility of being and not the obligation to be”.

LIMITED EDITIONS OF 25

Prints are with white border around the image for framing about 3-5cm.

Printed on Fine art paper with excellent quality and durability. The paper's structure are a cotton or cellulose base in order to guarantee museum use or archiving.

Each print comes with a Certificate of Authenticity hand-signed, numbered, titled and dated indicating that you have purchased an original work.

Materials used:

Printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 305 gsm paper.

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