Nikolas Ventourakis
Leaving Utopia
In my praxis I deal with contemporary social issues by focusing on the seemingly mundane. When a situation is too complicated the most unremarkable parts can sometimes hold the information that we need to further our understanding of it. In "Leaving Utopia" I use photography to create a document of a fluctuating and hostile environment, in which past rules are overturned and new realities reveal themselves. My intention was to create a visual narrative as a reaction to the social crisis in Greece and to an extend Europe. The work records a newly discovered continent that is Europe of the 21st century, where billboards advertise no new and brighter lives and the people are offered a multitude of dystopian futures.
Ksenia Burnasheva • Berta De la Rosa • Shirin Fathi • Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari • Sam Taylor • Fedor Toshchev • Nikolas Ventourakis •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Fine Art
London College of Communication
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
University of Wales, Newport
MA/MFA Documentary Photography
University of Sunderland
MA Photography
University of Ulster
MFA Photography