Πτυχιακή: Μετέωρος

ΠΠThrough a series of black-and-white photographs, an attempt is made to record and reveal figures trapped in intermediate psychological states — suspended between the desire for expression and the need for concealment, between silence and a scream, between presence and absence. This body of work constitutes an inquiry into the visual and psychological study of human existence in moments of inner uncertainty.

The introverted character of the series is not an aesthetic choice but an existential stance: the camera is turned inward, as if functioning as a mirror. The figures stand or move within boundaries, often alone, detached from contextual environments. Light is limited and does not reveal; darkness is not merely an absence, but a space of introspection.

Loneliness here does not appear as a fleeting event, but as a permanent psychological condition — a landscape through which one must move, stand, interact, or simply exist. The postures, gestures, and gazes do not merely capture isolated moments; they are “exercises in solitude” — repeated attempts at understanding or reconciling oneself with absence. Each photograph is a study of distance: from the Other, from the Self, from the world.

Fear is present — not loud, but subterranean. It is not the fear of death or loss, but that existential fear of the void, of meaninglessness, of non-communication. The fear that one’s gaze may never meet another gaze. The figures scream, distort, twist. They do not seek recognition, but the acknowledgment of their inner world — a world rarely observed and even more rarely imprinted.

The use of black and white intensifies the drama, removes unnecessary information, and directs the eye straight to the essential: the gesture, the posture, the shadow. The visual language evokes theatrical acts more than classic portraiture. The viewer is not simply asked to look, but to remain — to stand before the image and listen to its silence.

The series “Meteoros” offers no solutions, nor does it lead to catharsis. It is an attempt to record the fragile human experience, the silent anguish of being. A photographic meditation on loneliness not as a deficiency, but perhaps, as a form of art.