Nicholas Lambouris

Contested Landscapes: Contemporary Cypriot Photography

Landscape and power

Change Landscape from a noun to a verb, landscape is an action not a scene.

History of landscape painting 19th century

Decode landscape as a body of determinate signs

Aspects of landscape photography (and Cyprus)

Its close ties to colonization and orientalism

Its potential for portraying a nation

Its power to reflect as much as shape subjective viewpoints about identity, both national and personal

Colonial photography archive

John Thompson 1878

Maynard Owen Williams 1928

National geographic

Jean and Franc Shor 1952

A different viewpoint:

A more accurate you could say representation of Cyprus.

Where are you going young man, handsome like a legend 2017

Caves

Sharqi 2016

Visually silenced

Polaroid camera

Mining, and the effect it had on the land and what has been left behind.

Towards an eastern landfall 2016-ongoing, Nicolas Lambouris

Can we see the land without the people

Constructed almost like an artifact, never completed

Islandlistening, Charalambos Artemis

Mimicking of postcards

“Tourist”