Curator statement
Far from a simple recording, Stratos Kalafatis seems to be using photography to highlight moments of an experiential relationship with the world around him, idiosyncratic splinters of colour composing a fragmented diary of his life on the island of Skopelos or his short residence in Japan. Correspondingly, in his latest work he attempts to redefine the typical image of the city of Thessaloniki through a series of diptychs where people and spaces blend in contradictions and counterpoints. Hercules Papaioannou is the curator of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography. Stratos Kalafatis on the web: stratoskalafatis.com.
