Yannis Karpouzis

Photographer/ Film-maker
    
The Parallel Crisis
Location: Athens
Nationality: Greek
Biography:   Yannis Karpouzis was born in Athens on the 6th of June, 1984. At the age of 18 he succeeded to the National Technical University of Athens where he obtained his Diploma. During 2006, he moved for six months in Copenhagen where he got... MORE
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The Parallel Crisis
Copyright Yannis Karpouzis 2024
Updated Apr 2018
Location Athens
Topics Documentary, Mixed Medium
The immobilized time itself


Each animal is defined by a blow

Heracletus, late 6th century BCE


Over the last six years a destructive financial crisis has struck Greece, dismantling an already wrecked social balance and driving the population into a state of collective depression. A condition of stagnation is ruling the capital city of Athens.The project Parallel Crisis is a creative document that addresses the ways in which the Medium of Photography is capable of describing this socio-economical event. An uneasy affinity develops between the property of photography to produce events of immobilized time and the negation of social time that widespread crisis instigates. What photography is really recording in Greece, is a certain condition of numbness: subjects without the possibility of development, crippling unemployment, confined migrants, neighborhoods reigned by silence and fear. In these conditions, the Medium suspends time that has already been stalled.

Photography itself is conceived as a metaphor, a mirror of the financial crisis. 

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