During the 2020 lockdown, our editors and organisers Marius and Panagiotis have launched the hybrid photowalk, a 2-hour walk which combine virtual and physical presence of photographers in different parts of the world.

In this 1st edition on July 8th, 2020, 16 photographers from 4 countries have responded to the call and produced highly interesting sets of images.

But let’s go back to the concept of photowalk. Photography is best served when the individual picks up a challenge and takes it to a visual representation of the world in a certain time and in a certain space.
Whether photographing in a group or alone, the magic of photography is that nothing, never, nowhere will be the same the very next moment.

Some of us need a drive to leave their comfort zone and transcend the ordinary. Others, do not need any kind of impulse to keep shooting “anything that moves”. Nevertheless, they (we) are all equal and we begin from the same starting point in order to become extroverted through the lens, in order to channel our inner self in a picture and share it, or not.

This starting point is every time a blank paper. And it is always filled with emotions at the end.
Michail 14.7.20

We present you here the emotions of these photographers who took the time and the pain to capture the light and the aura of our, sometimes, inhuman cities and of their inhabitants within a 2-hour timeframe.

The series start with a picture (the most representative of the concept) from Florin who is setting up an excellent and disturbing scene of unrelated elements in order to place in it the representation of loneliness and of the emotional burden a man faces more and more these days of thunder and devastation.

Or as our Ruxandra puts it: “Because of the light, any surface seems alive, reflecting its own mood and feelings.”

Panagiotis: This first "hybrid photowalk" found me on the island of Paros.I went at "port cafe" at 5 to have a coffee . Few minutes before 18.00 hrs Vassilis, Margarita & Stella joined me. Unfortunately Vicky did not make it but she did the walk alone at Antiparos. All are members of "Paros photo club".
We walked at Paroikia to see the "Change of the island’s last months landscape as the first tourists start debarking on the island " as Vassilis says.
At the same time Nick in Patras: “I combined this walk with an excursion for a swim in the sea with my family. A route from Patras to the sea of Lakopetra".

Luiza in Tampere describes: "I have been walking alone for 2 hours with no direction in mind. My photowalk started from my neighbourhood, Rauhaniemi Beach, where is one of the most popular public saunas in the city. I headed then to the city centre, walked around the stadium, wandering around the railway station and finally back home. I walked a total of 7.4 km."

Dora was in Athens and Vassilis Demetriadis in Larnaca.

​Marius in Bucharest: Walking together with ten other people for whom photography is a common passion made me extremely happy. I thank them and also to all the participants in this event! Looking forward to the next one.

Photos by Corneliu Sarion

In Plato's cave, the Greek philosopher emphasizes the fundamental role of the light to bring us informations about the external world. The light transforms the real world into a virtual one, the world of the shadows. The light means life and knowledge through information; but the same light destroys the information in an overexposed photographic image. Just as time, light has a dual nature not only in the sense of physics but in connection with the process of creation.

We are living day by day in a real world and in a virtual one, the world of our memories. Through its pass, time transforms the real world into a virtual one, acting as a function defined into real with values into imaginary. As it creates our memories, time destroys that memories moment by moment. (Corneliu Sarion)

We build and keep the memories which we want to be surrounded by at the end of our lives. (Bogdan Comisel)

Photos by Bogdan Comisel