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Series of 8 photographs
and a photographic object Recycle*
2026
Tilos Island, Greece<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abandonment, looting, alteration, dispersion, burial and mineralization. Like Greek temples, vehicles abandoned on the islands become absorbed into the landscapes where they are parked for the last time. What will remain are the cast-aluminum engines, which, like marble columns, will stand the test of time. I photographed a gold-colored Ford Sierra, a Volvo F12 tanker truck, a Mercedes 302 bus with 531380 miles, a Datsun pickup, a yellow bulldozer, a Volkswagen van converted into a chicken coop, a Ford minibus from a vacation village, and a speedboat in the brambles.
I project these images of abandoned vehicles onto the walls of a pumice quarry, imagining them in their raw, substrate state. It is a way of petrifying an era, that of the Anthropocene and oil exploitation, of fixing it within an anthropogenic landscape, a quarry, and of viewing these \u201cTechnofossils\u201d as the remnants of a bygone era.
This project began in 2021 on the island of Ikaria with a photograph of a \u201cwall-car.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Recycle: creation of a unique photographic form from the test prints made for the project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photograph, 40 x 60 cm or 80 x 120 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Collage of 8 photographs, 15 x 92 cm, unique piece
Recycle: creation of a unique photographic composition using test prints made for the project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photograph, 20 x 30, Ikaria, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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