Impending growth (Ongoing project)
‘Impending Growth’ refers to the landscape that has been formed in anticipation of growth during the last ten years, from the beginning of the economic crisis in Greece to the pandemic era up till now. Regarding the economic crisis it was named as the period of a long-term sacrifice of the people for the common good, and nowadays is treated as something that has passed like a wound that has healed, but the results of this return to normality are yet to be seen, and no one knows if and when this will happen at all. After a long period of struggle, suddenly the pandemic came and erased almost all efforts of the previous years, bringing even more serious adversities. As in the myth of Sisyphus that every time it approaches the top something happens and the rock falls at the beginning of the mountain inaugurating a new Calvary. People look like they have adapted to this infinite struggle like living in a loop. One test succeeds another, and every now and then a new sacrifice is required to enable the coveted goal to be attained. People on pause. Plots and houses that have been transformed into urban landscapes of abandonment. A situation that has reduced misery and deprivation to a normal condition of living. Until the economic growth arrives, this situation of what one would describe as lethargy seems to become permanent. All images were taken in Thessaloniki and Athens where as being the largest cities of the country they absorbed most of the problem.
Impending growth (Ongoing project)
‘Impending Growth’ refers to the landscape that has been formed in anticipation of growth during the last ten years, from the beginning of the economic crisis in Greece to the pandemic era up till now. Regarding the economic crisis it was named as the period of a long-term sacrifice of the people for the common good, and nowadays is treated as something that has passed like a wound that has healed, but the results of this return to normality are yet to be seen, and no one knows if and when this will happen at all. After a long period of struggle, suddenly the pandemic came and erased almost all efforts of the previous years, bringing even more serious adversities. As in the myth of Sisyphus that every time it approaches the top something happens and the rock falls at the beginning of the mountain inaugurating a new Calvary. People look like they have adapted to this infinite struggle like living in a loop. One test succeeds another, and every now and then a new sacrifice is required to enable the coveted goal to be attained. People on pause. Plots and houses that have been transformed into urban landscapes of abandonment. A situation that has reduced misery and deprivation to a normal condition of living. Until the economic growth arrives, this situation of what one would describe as lethargy seems to become permanent. All images were taken in Thessaloniki and Athens where as being the largest cities of the country they absorbed most of the problem.