The direct and uncomplaining nature that only an hour after hosting you with greatness and generosity, makes you understand that you are nothing compared to its greatness.

I experienced many difficult and critical moments in nature, fatigue to the point of incapacity, getting lost, hunger, illness, cold, storm, flood and fall risk, fall risk and many other extreme conditions.

In those days, the social media storm had not yet started like today.  Traveling was still an immediate living experience, not a theatrical and media concept.  It didn’t have much class, as today the “Bag Packer” label has nothing less than an artist or a musician or such titles.

In the meantime, a pure and unchangeable truth always and everywhere was the main factor in the formation and continuation of these experiences, and in the most difficult moments, it was encouraging to put behind difficult conditions and difficult journeys;  Traveling people… those with whom I experienced the most important moments of life, intense moments of fear and hope.

Those days, when I was photographing on trips, my gaze was only to record small slices of the strange and ethereal atmosphere, which happened from time to time, in moments and minutes between these people. Sometimes a dramatic silence, sometimes a few back and forth  Dialogue, sometimes engaging in a short discussion and sometimes followed by a joke and a smile, and in the meantime, the most important thing is the constant dialectic that is formed between man and nature from the moment he enters that strange atmosphere.

In about 15 years, about 10,000 photo frames were recorded, which is not a lot, but I am not a prolific photographer at all, and I have never been, and on the other hand, during all these years, I lived most of the moments of the trip without a camera, and experienced the experience with an open frame.  I preferred with a closed frame and, in the words of Sontag, “I did not reduce the living thing to a physical thing” and my memory is proof of this claim.

None of the photos, at least until today, were taken with the full intention of sharing on any virtual social media, and some of them, being older, cannot be the result of such an intention.

In just the last few months, I have shared and will share some of them, which are part of the collection I prepared for the exhibition.

Just to share a small part of the dense and high-density “it”.

And not attractive and artistic and special and cool in short.

PN: Some of the people in the photos are no more.  Either by the fate of time or by your own fate.

I have to mention each and every one of those who are not, but their importance is not diminished and cannot be… maybe in their proper field.