Αθανάσιος Μυλωνάς | Milonas Athanasios • Άτιτλο | Untitled

Φωτογραφία slide | Slide photograph, 2 x 3,5cm, 2021

In 2017 I started buying slide photographs (35mm) from the flea market in Eleonas.

They were personal photographs of people unknown to me, depicting their daily lives and holidays. Most of the slides were carefully arranged and numbered in their covers. This led me to think that these items were of value to their owner and since they’re now in the flea market perhaps the owner is no longer living.

Around the same time I bought small collections of slides whose themes were travel and sightseeing, which were mass produced as to be available to the public from the companies. And so I began using slides captured by other people and modifying them. By overlapping the slides, new spaces-images are revealed through the process of double or triple exposure, almost like an analog Photoshop.