Georges Giannopoulos

Georges Salameh is a Greek-Lebanese artist. In photographic projects such as “Hear you, Athens” (1998-2006) he engages with peripatetics to create a psychogeography of contemporary Athens, the author’s home city. Salameh writes that the idea of peripatetics for him “revolves around experimental, direct non-conceptual photography, the quiet side of urban or landscape photography, during which attention is given primarily to the state of mind.” By creating images containing signifiers that also evoke the soundscape of the city, he expresses his direct experience of the chaos he encounters around him whilst walking, and somehow finds in it an echo of the intimate space of his own apartment.