Short bio
 
Andreas Papadopoulos is a photographer and video artist who graduated with a Master of Arts in Photography degree from the University of the Arts in London in 2005. He has participated in video and photography exhibitions at various venues around the world, including File Festival, Art Video Koeln, Matt Roberts Arts and Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, among others. He lives and works in Athens.
 
 
About my work
 
My photography and video work focuses on the ordinary and the everyday, exploring themes inspired by the complexity of the human condition and the contemporary landscape. The dialogue between history and the notion of the everyday is at the heart of my artistic process. The surface and the indications of the present are viewed as a unified totality that includes the accumulated blends of the natural and the manufactured over time, rather than as accidental and elusive elements.
 
Among other influences, the work of French historian Fernand Braudel has served as a source of inspiration. Braudel approaches the study of history as a continuous development that primarily consists of three interconnected time layers rather than as a linear narrative of significant events. At the first layer we come across the geographical time which has a slow, almost imperceptible speed and which marks the relation between people and the environment. The second layer is social time, which contains the forms of collective life and social interactions over the years, and finally the individual time, which brings to the forefront the recurring, commonplace characteristics of the present as a key part of the uninterrupted evolution of history. 
 
Such an understanding of the historical structure brings the significant role of the ordinary and the everyday to the central stage, embracing at the same time with equal respect the panoramic and the detail. The discreet representation of sociopolitical issues is an essential part of my work, which includes places across Europe with different evolution in the course of time. In this way, an attempt is being made to accentuate the interrelationship between the various features embedded within the landscape of our time, from central areas in big cities to suburban locations and images of the countryside. My work, in line with this approach, deliberately avoids direct messages and sensational events, preferring instead to examine both mediums' intrinsic possibilities to create visual narratives that carefully re-evaluate aspects of these familiar, everyday scenes.


Contact
 
e-mail: papadopoulosandreas@yahoo.co.uk