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βalkan Urban League without Borders

Memento mori

4/29/2016

 

Roland Barthes in one of the most vulnerable moments in his authoritative book on Photography (Camera Lucida) describes in a so "unlike-him" touching way, the "old photos in the trunk" nostalgic, melancholic trance. 
"There I was, alone in the apartment where she had died, looking at these pictures of my mother, one by one under the lamp, gradually moving back in time with her, looking for the truth of the face I had loved. And I found it."

Gina Maragoudaki is creating the same temporal paradox but only today, now. Her trenchant portraits are touched with pathos.

It may seem at first reading a theatricalization of the real. But Gina knows (feels) that something like that would be redundant. And she is delivering something that in itself is the ultimate sacrifice of the artist.

Her honest, uncrafted vision of the "memento mori".

In Utero

4/10/2016

 

‘in Utero’ is:

·         a Latin term literally meaning ‘in the womb’. In biology, the phrase describes the state of an embryo or fetus. In legal contexts, the phrase is used to refer to unborn children.
·         the effort to imprint the status in which the born living being, partially pauses its biological activities for milliseconds, unconsciously or otherwise. While there, the ‘return in the womb’ is unavoidable.
·         part of a wider on-going project.

by Andreas Neophytou

    What is?

    The Bulb Collective consists of photographers active in urban (and rural) photography with an expressive shift to include highly aesthetic and poetic images in their assignments.

    They share the same vision but not the same perspective which gives the necessary "polyphony" in their extremely ambitious endeavour to cover all the aspects of the Balkan neorealism.

    Their visual signatures aspire to create iconic images and to be the best in metamorphosing and interpreting all aspects of life in this highly contradictory and fascinating part of the world.

    ​βULB goes Sofia

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    Upcoming

    Stay tuned to learn in time about the events organised by our team. 
    SEP 2019: ΦΩS Bucharest
    JULY 2019: Dobrogea
    JUNE 2019: CAMP Paros 
    MAY  2019: ΦΩS Sofia
    MAR 2019: The Greeks
    NOV 2018: PhosAthens2
    APR 2018: The Romanians
    APR 2018: ΦΩS Project2 
    JAN 2018: BG exhibition
    DEC 2017: MSPF 2017
    NOV 2017: ΦΩS Project
    AUG 2017: VSLO 2017
    APR 2017: CY exhibition
    DEC 2016: 2nd Photo Contest
    NOV 2016: 2nd book  launch
    JUL 2016: Athens exhibition
    JUL 2016: BULB in Kulturama
    JUN 2016: Katerini exhibition

    JUN 2016: Thess. exhibition
    FEB 2016: Bucharest exhibit
    JAN 2016: 1st Photo Contest
    AUG 2015: BULB at VSLO2015
    JUL 2015: CUCAL Exhibition
    JUN 2015: BULB  1st Book
    FEB 2015: Rural Project
    JAN 2015: BULB Open DAY

    Articles by

    All
    Alexandros Tsiolis
    Alphan Yilmazmaden
    Andreas Neophytou
    Bogdan Comisel
    Catalin Strugaru
    Diana Maria
    Dimitris Mytas
    Florina Luput
    George Dobre
    George Tsilis
    Gina Maragoudaki
    Ioannis Stamatogiannis
    Kostas Kroustallis
    László Tibor Olah
    László-Tibor Olah
    Leontina Chiricioiu
    Makis Makris
    Marius Petrescu
    Martin Iliev
    Michail Moscholios
    Mihai Ciama
    Niki Gleoudi
    Nikos Konidaris
    Octavian Cucolea
    Panagiotis Kalkavouras
    Ploutarcos Haloftis
    Raluca Furtuna
    Soula Palentza
    Stavros Stamatiou
    Stela Patrulescu
    Svilen Nachev
    Szilvia Illes
    Tasos Biris
    Thanasis Karatzas
    Various
    Ventsislav Lalev
    Yiota Tsokou
    Zisis Kardianos

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