Ατομική έκθεση

«Afloat 2.0» Todd Rigos

Αλεξάνδρειο Συνεδριακό Κέντρο στον Ισθμό της Κορίνθου είσοδος Λουτρακίου
Διάρκεια έκθεσης / Exhibition duration: 18/9 - 25/9/2021
Opening day 18/9/21 - 17:00-20:00

Ώρες λειτουργίας: Καθημερινά από Δευτέρα - Παρασκευή 10:00 - 13:00 και το απόγευμα του Σαββάτου 19:00 - 21:00
Working hours: Daily (except Saturday & Sundays ) 10:00 -13:00 and Saturday afternoon 19:00 - 21:00

Από το Σάββατο 18 Σεπτεμβρίου παρουσιάζεται στο Αλεξάνδρειο Συνεδριακό Κέντρο η ατομική έκθεση φωτογραφίας του εξαίρετου φωτογράφου Θεόδωρου Ρίγου με τίτλο: Afloat 2.0.

Η έκθεση πραγματοποιείται στο πλαίσιο της διοργάνωσης του Φεστιβάλ Φωτογραφίας Κορινθίας 2021 από το Πελοποννησιακό Ινστιτούτο Τεχνών.

«Afloat», is an ongoing photographic series that tells the story of Greece's notoriously unsafe Moria refugee camp and the thousands of people who called it home. Revisiting the overcrowded facility on the island of Lesbos in late 2020, a lot had changed: during a COVID-19-related lockdown, a great fire had turned the camp into ashes leaving about 13,000 people without shelter for weeks to follow. In an effort to retrace my steps, Afloat 2.0 chronicles this devastating aftermath in a sequence of diptychs portraying two different time periods within the same year -before and after the fire- when life in Moria took a turn from bad to worse overnight. Juxtaposing those two realities side by side this project illustrates the aftershock of the destruction.

Staying afloat is now more important than ever.

bio

Todd Rigos (b.1987) is a contemporary photographer from Athens, Greece, whose work explores notions of intimacy, identity, and human interaction. Through curiosity, observation and presence he seeks to witness and document patterns between people, nature, the things we consume and the milieus in which we live. He started developing his personal work in 2009 and his self-taught skills extend across digital and analogue photography. Since then, he has been recognized through several awards and has exhibited in numerous group shows in Athens and across the country. In 2019 he attended the Documentary, Photo Journalism & Studio program at Spéos International Photographic Institute & Magnum Photos in Paris, France. Upon graduation, he focused on the humanitarian field documenting the lives of refugees and trying to bring action and make a difference in the world through his work.