Mountain I. The silence of the high lands

On going project

In the Frousia mountains of Epirus the land opens high and silent. Between the ranges of Tzoumerka and Agrafa the peaks rise one after another, while far below the Acheloos River flows through the valleys. In the early morning a mist spreads across the ravines before slowly climbing the slopes.

Along these mountainsides small shepherd communities once lived. Flocks moved along the same routes, and narrow paths led to stone shelters that were reopened each season within the landscape.

The Mountain emerged through repeated returns to this place. Over time the landscape begins to reveal its small transformations: a shelter abandoned, a path slowly disappearing into vegetation, a voice no longer heard in the mountains.

To record this world, a large-format camera from the 1950s and Fuji FP-100 instant film were deliberately chosen, a photographic material no longer in production. A way of life approaching disappearance is thus documented through a photographic medium that has itself vanished.

The negatives of this film, once discarded, are recovered and returned to the surface of the image.

Through these photographs the mountain appears as a place where time moves differently — slow, deep, and almost invisible — like the wind passing between the peaks before fading into the forests.