Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Kosovo 1.


Kosovo as a place and some people i v met there wasnt a surprise for me.i v been expecting the style and the matter .
after some days i realised kosovo is just a movie scenery in a expensive holluywoodlike production with guest stars ,gorgeous b-role actors ,special effects but also with an expecting end.
...gleich gehts weiter!

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Tuesday's night knowledge.


Oh yess ..yesterday night i learnt something (good to realise ):i have to keep distance from the the incidents and the people.Observing the people and their habits is a double earning:i keep my focus to what i am interested and i dont spend my valuable energy to unfinished discussions.Katerina's legs showed to me that from everything you can take something usefull.and i just repeat a genious greeting from Epicurus :

" Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor
weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age
is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to
say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet
come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the
season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more.
Therefore, both old and young ought to seek wisdom, the
former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young
in good things because of the grace of what has been, and
the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the
same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which
are to come. So we must exercise ourselves in the things
which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have
everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are
directed toward attaining it."
Epicure"s letter to Menoecius.

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Savina .a fan's note


for photographers and especially for portraitists there r always some persons wanted always to photograph.no matter of commersial value or other prejudice but just desired icons.for me were-hopefully- always a few.one was the singer Savinna Giannatou.i dont know but since i heared first time was a familiar person to me.like was case of time when i will meet her as photographer.yesterday i got the chance to meet her ,photograph and go along for a while.
results:1.realised how shy -still-i am
2.she is nice and cool and out of the normal music starsystem complexities(yeah she is a star 4 me and for some others)
3.she is also a bit shy
4.i v lost the chance to make a big pic with one of my favourite artist
5.walking back to go to metro station ,relaxed and fell nicelly.i am lucky in a way .a small dream came true not in a perfect pack but true.

Monday, November 14, 2005

Early Morning in the National Road


6.25 ,morning,driving north.weak light.a bit of cold.folowing the sun and the day to this unbelievable everyday's journey.
isnt the first time but still excited to see the change from the night to day.is my favourite moment of the day.And after.. hours work and driving still having a smile and pleasure that i vgot all of this day,all of what we mean a day of life.so close and so far from this great miracle.This morning was like my first morning ,nothing can be compared cose nothing is the same.

Monday, November 07, 2005

Diane in London


Still amazed from Diane Arbus exhibition in V&A museum.A true exhibition.B4 i go ,i thought i knew Arbus but after i realised much more and so much less.A real visualmental experience.I v felt she has been so far and so deep .That is photography.every picture was a different strong emotion.all of the photographed people are starring to the lens as they recognise a familiar person,a brother or a sister .Diane was or she still is(even dead) a chameleon.shooting a transvestite was a transvestite,shooting the"child in a nightgown" became ONE, shooting the "jewish giant with parent"was a part of the family . an accurate chameleon.
check : www.vam.ac.uk/arbus

London


one more time in London. Picadilly Sq, Northern line tube, Brodies shop, and James are still there.signs of past and ofcourse signs for future. I like this eclectic mix people.tramps and bankers,models and saudis in burgas, language students till bohemians are making the most attractive crowd to muck around.Afterwards London is the place to be lost and m8 the place
to be invented.still undergoundlly chic.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Kastoria 2.


to eida kai htan to pio periergo xrwma .H limni ths kastorias kai enas kyknos ,kanonika vamenos prasinos.poios kserei apo poio logo ...pandws afto den tou xalage thn volta ,oute thn dikh mou.

Friday, October 14, 2005

Kastoria 1.





Five days in Kastoria the lake city north of Greece,trying to shoot a story for and about FUR !vison is the french word of mink,foxes,chinchilla ,chopel etc.Blackglamma is the rollsroyce of fur and there are a few quality and budget standards.
Tough guys in family schemes(mostly)making furs,russians are coming from all over the ex USSR states to buy ,big companies import stuff from China trying to pull down the prices and increase the profits,Greekrussian mafia arranges and manipulates the fur tourism from East Europe.
i didnt expect this vivid atmosphere.Kastoria is a modern PAZARI (BAZAAR) with orientalbalcanic smell.
But beyond the Fur story,Kastoria is one of the most beautifull cities .
Go Minas go !

Friday, October 07, 2005

Glance !


a sweet kitty in Sifnos island.glances anxiously to me .i held my breath and tried 2 approach it.not possible .small kitty shows me the line where i couldnt go through.
i think again ,its so dificullt to portraiture animals and much easier people.

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Schon !


just arrived ,cloudy,rainy & windy.remind me the last days of childhoods holliday.Like then,now happy to start ,happy to be hungry for what comes next weeks and months.just arrived and everything smells autumn.autumn is a training period for the winter.is the season of silence and starring.above of all is the perfect time to be HERE !

Thursday, September 15, 2005

TUPPERWARE story



...priests,actors,fashionistas,journalists & assistants,artists and lawyers ..just small pieces of a plastic society.living in a red box of emotions are pretending they vgot a life ,a real life far from the masses ,far from what they are.Pretencious enough
to create their world,a brand new world ready to be photographed & demonstrate the lifemotto:WE ARE UNIQUE & HAPPY !!!
...and me..me just a silly cameraman to follow the adventure of observing .I am just an observer with a litle of talent to hold my breath when a big house in Plaka smells dogshit.
well thats life darlings.Accept and go ahead or refuse and go further!
Guten nacht!

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Guaranteed...


Guaranteed...οπως σε καθε σημειο αφτου του κοσμου ,τις μικρης γειτονιας που λεγεται Αθηνα ετσι και στη φωτογραφια οι περισοτεροι ειναι ασχετοι.skill για να μπεις καπου ,να κανεις κατι ειναι η ασχετωσυνη.Ο καθε ενας εχει αποψη,και οπwς ειπε ο Dirty Harry once : opinion is lik an ashole,everybody got one ! well, thats the reality darlings .
Φτιαχνοντας φωτογραφιες καποιος πρεπει να εχει γερο στομαχι και μικρη η καθολου ακοη...(θα τα παω καλα..)
αν γουσταρει το σπορ τοτε ειναι δυσκολα τα πραγματα...σ αφτη την περιπτωση υπαρχουν δυο λυσεις :η ορμας και τα γαμας ολα η προσπαθεις να επιβιωσεις κανοντας παραλληλά και ταπεινα τα κεφια σου...

ολοκληρη φιλοσοφια εινα πλεον πωσ να κανεισ αφτο που γουσταρεισ..τα πραγματα ειναι τοσο δυσκολα και τοσο εφκολα,μαζι και χωρια που αναγκαστικα η φωτογραφια γινεται τροποσ ζωης γιατι απλα δεν μπορεισ να κσεφυγεισ απο αφτο το chain of reactions.....

sounds like a complain???isnt !! its just a story about how the passion becomes a stressy shity condition!!!
and i v got to escape !!
I step out for a beer !
Cheers
N

A day in Aspropirgos



I vbeen in Aspropirgos shooting a feature about Oil.running around the refineries,exausts & toxics.really a dirty job takes place there.smelling the air u feel why the most of the workers are nt optimistist for their future.

Sunday, September 04, 2005

weather report


....between small silly hai kus & heat & warm seawater i am diving into autumns thoughts & pearly waters of joy,beyond time
and seasons there is always another way to count things...

Thursday, September 01, 2005

old pic from now


..meres twra kykloforw oli mera me mia palia mou fwto apo stock pou den hksera kan oti yparxei.dwro apo ta palia na mou thymisei alla pragmata kai na mou thymisei ti kanw twra mias kai mesa sth zesth kai tous dromous to ksexnaw h apofevgw na to skeftomai.koitazw to vlemma mou kai sigoura vlepw kati gia prwth fora,prwth fora kanonikh oxi apo aftes pou ksexnioundai kai skonizondai.afta.wra na koimhthw na parw dynameis kai na ormiksw katapanw..KALO MHNA !

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

A FEW WORDS AND SOME PICS FROM SAN FRANCISCO

well..a few words and some pics from HOARD MAG .a well designed and cool online magazine from San Francisco.

if u got time take a look ...


http://www.hoardmag.com/nikos/1.htm




cheers
N

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

New Shape of Thing


New shape of my blog will appeare in next few weeks.The blog will be the diary in words and pictures of my travelling.Travelling around for work or leisure or going to see my Ilias.Till now was a short try out to figure if and what i need from a blog.Shortly ,will be more usefull and the same time an active part of my webpage.
As i v imagined my web page ,would be good to have an online portfolio but also an alive (in a way)and fast updated blog where i ll write and visualise WHAT and WHERE and HOW ....
see u soon
N

Monday, August 15, 2005

Monday, August 01, 2005

August "s first morning comes from yesterdays night view


I know that is peculiar t chek everydays meaning but i find it also adventurus to fightfor 5 min to think about. something like a short small prayer before dinner.5 minutes to feel-if possble-how big luck is to start the morning with knowledge that s Monday morning first of August middle & more of the year and happens once.

Friday, July 29, 2005

Friday night...light is still amazing


...somebody said ..no matter if lyrics ,if poem ,if just a text

Red lights, gray morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depends on who's around
You used to stay in to watch the adverts
You could lip synch to the talk shows


And if you look, you look through me
And when you talk, you talk at me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing

Hey Zardoz

Holla Zardoz my dearest,how nice ucan handle the english language.I am impressed.I think u are the right person on the wrong field.
very poetic & very emotionally accurate.happy 2 blog on my board.
c u arnd

N :->

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Early Thursday Morning


Every minute has a different light.Now 7am Th morning has a special light.weak but will be strong,yellow but will become white,slow but in a while will be soo fast.
GOODMORNING

N ,-))

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Wendsday morning belongs to a long day trip


i have to be in a hurry .so called that i am already late .
happy that i v loaded my web with new staff ,some good pics and looks like an era has changed a bit.I think my reportage themes are too mild and superficial ,same time the portraits are looking better cose is enough 3-4 pics and anyways a person ,whoever is, is a person.not much earth 2 dig out.but reportage needs opinion and time to work for.
hmm..will see. the real thing wil be unveiled anyway in a while.

fava pic for ttoday from Wrestling staff.WHERE D SHE GOES???
NC

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Tuesday morning

VIEW FROM MY BALCONY
nice sweet morning. July in Athens gives you the best of the city. warm,barbarians are or preparing to hollidays,less traffic jam and time, a lot of time to think ,slower tempo .whole thing is in a good size.
Just want to go to my small atelier,drinking a cold frape and enjoying view.A slow tempo day --is a good day !
N

Sin City

...kicks like a mule...what a gorgeous film .over .is a shock: b/w ,comix ,surrealistic atmosphere plus fluorescent colours .just a cult movie ;-))

Monday, July 25, 2005

Hey Asam

Hey aasam this blog is just for commntn .also plan to post pics from travels something like semi private diary....no bullshit.
N :-)

Monday Monday

Monday morning.ola kala .even sounds like a silly greet to the god of small things...yap.all is ok and we have to go on.
Ich gehe nach mein liebling strand .schwimmen ist gut auf jedem fall. bis bald...

p.s Hey Zardoz you got to sleep more my man. good u found my blog . u vgot a god nose....also u can comment straight to each day"s note.anyway however....




posted by Nikos at 10:05 AM  

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Sunday morning

here i am. hot sunday morning. athens .looking forward to step out .
already 24 th july.things to do and things i cant, cose is already late or a bit early.
so i stay with what i have.
GOODMORNING !

Saturday, July 23, 2005

Welcome

my first writing on my blog