Photographer and cinematographer Annie Tsevdomaria created Fleet as part of her residency culminating in her attendance at the WAC25 Encounters. The residency was in Psarades, a reference-point village located near the tri-national border where Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia converge at the Prespa lakes. Drawing on seven years of sustained engagement with the village, Tsevdomaria employed walking and photography to create a visual record of both landscape and the characteristics of local, everyday life.

The Work
Fleet illustrates Tsevdomaria’s belief that photography is fundamentally an act of self-expression—one that brings together all accumulated life experience, relationships, and exposure to other art forms. She draws on Ansel Adams’s understanding that “we don’t make a photograph just with a camera, we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved.”
The work explores the reciprocal relationship between photography and walking, a bond that has existed since photography’s earliest days. Walking provides access to diverse subjects, encourages observation, and fosters creativity, while photography motivates deeper engagement with environments and surroundings. In Fleet, Tsevdomaria navigates the territory between two approaches: photographing while walking, and walking while photographing—the distinction being whether the photographs themselves are the artwork, or whether the walk is the art and photographs serve as documentation.

Practice & Process
Tsevdomaria’s methodology draws from multiple photographic traditions that require walking: street photography’s imperative to move through public space seeking subjects, documentary photography’s field-based observation, landscape photography’s environmental immersion, and the photographic diary’s personal chronicle. Her seven-year relationship with Psarades allowed for repeated walks through the same territory, building an intimate visual vocabulary of place over time.
The work highlights local identity at this unique geographical junction, where borders meet and lakes are shared between nations, capturing the village’s role as both meeting point and home to distinct everyday practices.

Fleet demonstrates how sustained walking practice combined with photography can reveal the layers of a place—moving beyond single visits to develop understanding through repeated encounters. The work positions photography firmly as an art form interwoven with walking, contributing to ongoing conversations about documentation, presence, and the ways artists engage with borderland communities.