THE PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY - Cyclades Sightlines 2016

 

Itinerary and analog / film photography diary

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In summer 2016 I spend almost three months sailing around the aegean sea and the  cyclades. Some of the destinations I visited includes: Athens ( Akropolis, Plaka ),  Delos, Mykonos, Serifos, Sifnos, Folegandros, Antiparos, Paros, Naxos, Koufonisi, Amorgos, Syros ...

The purpose of the journey was a kind of mind reset,  creative insight or time away and active pause from the city life. Sometimes our mind is blocked,  it frames our whole perception in a fixed domain ... you have the feeling that your are trapped, you can not go on, you can not evolve  ... you are stuck. At this point  you need  a reset ... a journey was my response ...

My thoughts are still undeveloped but the guide concepts during the journey were: space, vision, sightline, songline, knowledge, identity, history, nostos.


Songline* - Within the animist belief system of Indigenous Australians, a songline, also called dreaming track, is one of the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky)[1] which mark the route followed by localised 'creator-beings' during the Dreaming. The paths of the songlines are recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance, and painting.
A knowledgeable person is able to navigate across the land by repeating the words of the song, which describe the location of landmarks, waterholes, and other natural phenomena. In some cases, the paths of the creator-beings are said to be evident from their marks, or petrosomatoglyphs, on the land, such as large depressions in the land which are said to be their footprints.  [ wiki ]

Sightline*  - A sightline, sight line or visual axis, is a normally unobstructed line-of-sight between an intended observer (or spectator) and a stage, arena, or monument, for example. Sightlines are a particularly important consideration in theatre and stadium design, road junction layout and urban planning. In cities such as London, construction within sightlines is restricted to protect the key views of famous landmarks.

Objects that have a direct line of sight with one another are said to be intervisible. [ wiki ]

Mykonos - Plaubel Makina 67, Kodak Ektar 100


My camera bag. Nikon FM2 and Plaubel Makina 67


 In my camera bag I had to analog / film cameras. One 35mm,  the Nikon FM2  with the Nikkor 28mm PC lens and one medium format,  the Plaubel Makina 67 ( Nikon 80mm f2.8 lens ). Also some film rolls. Kodak Tri-X 400, Kodak Portra 160, Kodak Ektar 100 and some Maco Eagle AQS 400 ( surveillence film ) ..



Landscape format


Mykonos Little Venice - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor, Maco 400

Amorgos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor

Amorgos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor

Delos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor 
Delos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor


Delos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor
Sifnos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor, Kodak Ektar 100

Paros - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor, Kodak Ektar 100


Mykonos Paraportiani - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor, Maco 400



Portrait format


Mykonos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor, Maco 400

Amorgos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor, Maco 400

Serifos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor. Kodak Ektar 100




Sifnos, Kastro - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor, Kodak Ektar 100




Naxos Kastro - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor

Amorgos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor

Serifos

Mykonos - Nikon FM2, 28mm PC Nikkor














Serifos - Chora

Paros

Mykonos




Amorgos - Plaubel Makina 67. Kodak Ektar 100



Plaka, Athens

Akropolis Iera Odos, Athens

Plaka, Athens




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