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 )