Alek Lindus, Samos, Greek Islands
Alek Lindus is a Samos Island-based photographer. She was born Paris, France in 1965. Educated in the UK. Lived in Greece since 1976. Currently living in Samos Member of the Greek Union of Artists - 1999. She uses a Hasselblad500CM, a YashicaD, a HolgaCFN and a polaroid as long as the film lasts. She likes film. She would take the NikonD80 into a war zone.
Says Alek, “Summer Solstice is a series of photographs inspired by the poem of the same title by George Seferis. It is shot in the tannery quarter of the town of Karlovassi on Samos. I have been photographing these tanneries, now disused, for a long time, documenting the gradual disintegration of the buildings. Eventually the spirit of the place, the time contained within it began to come in to the photographs and I became more interested in proposing a kind of narrative that I could see there between the empty blocks of buildings.”
“It is the potential of every photograph, like a dream, to suspend time and transform space. Threading the narrative – a contrived image is a staged moment within a conceptual context; it resolves the drama of light and movement before and after the frame and is a critical disturbance of space/time. The story within each frame is connected by the gaps of sequentiality. I am exploring this invisible ‘frame after’ and its suggestion to the mind of the viewer.”
Images copyright: Alek Lindus
This kind of works are really amazing use the phoography (with all that cultural burden of fidelity) like a tool to show dreaming alike scenes and characters is really awesome.