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”
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