A gap

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Χωρίς να το καταλάβω, ο καιρός πέρασε (όπως εύκολα γίνεται χωρίς να το σκεφτείς)
Όλον αυτόν τον καιρό,
σχεδόν ένα χρόνο από τον Ιούλιο του 17 μέχρι και σήμερα,
μπήκα σε διαδικασίες διαφορετικές από ότι ήξερα και είχα συνηθίσει να κάνω.

Στην σκέψη μου για τα πράγματα,
στην διάθεση μου απέναντι στην εικόνα,
στην στάση μου απέναντι στην ζωή,
όλα αυτά τα γιατί-κάνω-αυτό-που κάνω….

τον λόγο.

Έτσι είπα να δοκιμάσω κάτι διαφορετικό,
να δοκιμάσω άλλα σχήματα
να το πω διαφορετικά και μέσα από αισθητικά γνωρίσματα λογοτεχνικών κινημάτων
να αφήσω τη ματιά να παίξει

Without realizing it, the time passed (so easily done without thinking about it)
All this time, almost a year from July 17 until today,

I went into procedures different from what I knew and I was used to doing.
In my thoughts about things,
my attitude towards the image,
my attitude towards life,
all the things, why-I-do-what-I-do……..

the reason

So I said to try something different,

to try other shapes
to say it differently and through aesthetic features of literary movements
to let the look playing

The graffiti says: my country is my childhood

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July 2017 Cyprus-Athens

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Aglantazz 2017

Moments

The 43nd anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the military cemetery in Nicosia with the graves of Greek and Cypriot soldiers killed in the 1974 from the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on July 19, 2017.

Athens, Greece:

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June 2017 in Cyprus

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

June 2017 in Cyprus

A picture taken in NICOSIA showing an old man sitting in his shop

A picture taken on Ledra street shows an old woman selling icons to passers-by.

A picture taken in NICOSIA showing an old lady sitting out of a shop

A picture taken in the old neighborhood of NICOSIA close to square of “No”. The food canteen is located just below a shop where its plateau writes: “Phoebus Satan” :)

A picture taken in NICOSIA showing an man sitting in his balcony.

A picture taken in NICOSIA showing a young boy sitting in his window

This picture shows the orthodox hagiography of “Pantokrator” in the church of Panagia Feneromenis in the old city of Nicosia. This hagiography type of Jesus Christ is unique shows the “old of days”, the father of everything

Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot protestors hold banners during a demonstration outside the UN-controlled buffer zone in the Cypriot capital Nicosia on June 28, 2017, calling for the unification of the Mediterranean island after the Cypriot President warned of a possible impasse in talks to reunify the ethnically divided island.

Pyla village is located in the eastern part of the islandi in Larnaca district and located within UNFICYP Buffer zone where Greek Cypriots and Tourkish Cypriots living in harmony together.

Turkish-Cypriots at a Turkish-community cafe in Pyla, a village still inhabited by both its original Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot community, located in the United Nations Buffer in CYPRUS, on June 27, 2017.

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MAY 2017 in Cyprus

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Without words I’ll start a small photographic presentation of every last month, as the wind through the moments and made them history – no forgotten history –

These are the selection from the snapshots I did, according mostly from accidental events, professional shots and my walks around the streets

I decided to do this every month as a small appreciation for the people and the moments were smiled to me !!

MAY 2017 in Cyprus.

Visitors in the exhibition ‘Risky travels’ of Andys Hadjiadamos and Baci Bogac in Pafos on 5 May, 2017 for the Pafos 2017.

In the exhibition ‘Risky travels’ of Andys Hadjiadamos and Baci Bogac in Pafos on 5 May, 2017 for the Pafos 2017. The Andys grandson touching the sculpture of his grandfather and his mother looking.

Baki Bogac, Turkish Cypriot, Sculptor and Architect, 66 year old. He saved the works of Andy in the official opening of the exhibition ‘Risky travels’ of Andys Hadjiadamos and Baci Bogac in Pafos on 5 May, 2017 for the Pafos 2017.

In mosque a child playing during the praying

Empty shop in the occupied part of Nicosia

In the orthodox church “Wisdom of God” in Nicosia attended of the president of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades was done the ceremony of the remains or part of the remains of seventeen Greek soldiers on 26 May, 2017 who died during the 1974 Turkish invasion. The coffins of the 17 Greek nationals will handed over to Greece’s by defence minister Panos Kammenos

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Socratis Malamas concert in Cyprus

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

I felt like nothing changed, like the time still being the same
I had so many years to see and listen this beautiful company
and as I wrote in the video
from my heart I dedicate this to Mitso Anagnostopoulo was the best bouzouki
who left us for heaven’s concerts
and to all those beautiful years of mine back in Greece who I participated
in this amazing mood… which I miss a lot”

Thank you

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9 years behind …

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

I have no words to express feelings or thoughts,
I could say that has not been said by experts, non-experts, from all
A minute of silence may be the best …
Sorry for those who perished,
sorry for that was destroyed,
sorry I could not more,
sorry that so many years, I forgot …

I dedicate to the family of my friend and his little five year old miracle,
who she will never know her aunt and she will not play with her four cousins

In my youth, and the times when I smiled at the beaches of Kaiafas and kato Samiko near to the pity Zacharo
In the village of my mother burned half but fortunately we did not lose someone

To my friends were I still go to visit them and their children grow up
To my others, my own people were left far away from their destroyed home after finding no support and now they are living in Germany

Only silence, apology and a promise that one day I will again make this trip,
for me, for that I lost and left behind me

( The photos are without any filter, this was the color temperature of those moments )

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And you let her go …

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Every day I am surprised from this unique little human being
I am still having her in my mind, when she was so small, so fragile, a baby
She is still my baby but …
the years run and the time is not like Pinelope (wife of famous Odyssea) doesn’t waiting for you.
Nope never
so one day you are looking the mirror and the faces are different

When I heard this song I felt as if I ate cuff…..
and you let her go…… you let her flying

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The arrival

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

The worst migration crisis since World War II. (The pictures are from Lesvos island, Greece)

…

I have no words to express myself, to describe the pictures or my emotions and I really I don’t want to do it.
The only thing that I know is that I went to Lesvos island to cover the arrival of the refugees with suspicious thoughts about them and after just one day I started “seeing” in several boats my daughter, my wife and myself

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Forgotten souls

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

The abandoned Asylum of incurability “New martyr Georgios” inside the city of Ioannina in Greece.
If I understood well the hospital closed on 2009 and the people lived there went to another place out of the city, the old Asylum remain closed all these years

Now the only visitors who enter illegally, jumping a small fence, are mostly photographers, thieves and drug addicts, looking to find each lost paradise

This story started from my curiosity to see this unique place from some pictures I saw and from the stories I was heard about the old Asylum from friends living and studying in Ioannina

Then it evolved into exercise of courage for myself and secondary a photography test, because I strongly believe that in every place were people had suffer the specific place still have their energy, their cry, their mood.

So in this place, years before souls with problems lived there.

All the time even if I was in the middle of the day I had strange feelings…

..the things around me, seems like someone left them for a while

and the owners from moment to moment they will return and they will ask me why I disturb them, why I am there, and from whom I took the permission for this visit

Even now when I am writing this, I have this disturbing feeling that someone was with me all the time and for this reason again and again I am looking carefully to find him in the reflections, hiding in the shadows, behind the windows, in the dark rooms in the pictures

I want to share the mood and the feeling of the moment, this was the reason why I edited the pictures in B/W even if I am fan of the colour pictures.
Also, I have to apologize because I found nothing to say about the asylum, nobody knows and nobody talks and in researching I did in web I found again nothing

I hope the municipality of Ioannina to realise the value of this abandoned hospital, they have to protect it because it is pity this unique place to don’t be a center of culture and spirit

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We were there too

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Fengaros festival in Kato Drys in the Larnaca district, for another three-day run, filled with music, on the 31st of July until the 2nd of August. Celebrating its fifth birthday, Fengaros is today considered as one of the best and most highly-anticipated events of the summer. The bar has been set even higher this year, with the ultimate goal being the festival’s establishment as an important and major international event.

Bands and solo artists from Cyprus, Greece, England, France and the USA created an amalgam of music ranging from traditional to progressive, ethnic, blues, pop/rock, psychedelic, ambient, jazz and more.

This musical melting pot includes an attractive collection of names such as: the renowned world music act Banda Magda (USA), the Epirus stoner-rockers Villagers of Ioannina City (Greece), the beloved to the cypriot audience Flying Ibex (UK), the Cretan music virtuoso quartet Xylouris/Spyridakis/Persides/Katsikiotis (Greece), the uplifting The Burger Project (Greece), the freak-folk Le Juki (UK), the upcoming psychedelic-pop band The Cave Children (Greece), acts for children such as Dimitris Baslam’s (Greece), Alexia C.’s solo act (France), and Martha Mavroidi’s ethnic trio (Greece). From the local music scene, we’ll see names such as the veterans of cypriot rock To Marazi tis Fotoulas, the folk/progressive J. Kriste, Master of Disguise, and Tricoolore.

Three stages: the Main Stage, the Village Stage and the ABR Stage (in collaboration with Alternative Brains Rule), hinting at the festival’s pulse and vibe during its three-day take-over.

The festival’s organic athmosphere is further emphasized by the village’s graphic scenery, as the aesthetic of the surroundings will become once again a source of inspiration for both the artists and the participants

and after all, she finally slept :)

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