"Ούτε άτακτος, ούτε λαγός"

Μια προσέγγιση στην γνώση και σύγχυση της δημιουργικής φωτογραφίας. Με προβολές οπτικού υλικού, συζητήσεις και την παραγωγή φωτογραφικού έργου σε 8 εβδομαδιαίες συναντήσεις των 5 ωρών.

Έναρξη: 12 Φεβρουαρίου 2008 - Θεσσαλονίκη
Διδασκαλία: Στράτος Καλαφάτης

Πληροφορίες: 2310 526 440
email: info@stratoskalafatis.com

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"Neither naughty , neither a hare"

An approach into the knowledge and confussion of creative photography. With projections of photographic material, discussions and the production of photographic work in 8 weekly, 5 hour sessions.

Starting: February 12th, 2008 - Thessaloniki
Τutor: Stratos Kalafatis

Information: +30 2310 526 440
email: info@stratoskalafatis.com

June 2007

PHoto Espana 07 - PHE07
10th International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts Madrid.
June 2nd (Saturday) until 22th of July (Sunday), 2007 5:00pm - 9:00pm

Kalafatis focusses on a seemingly unreal reality, a sublimation of fiction, an experience enveloping the entire work in colour. An invitation to melt into the vibrant hues of his images, meandering from yellow to green, from blue back to yellow, in a succession of varying intensities of light. A distinctive trait of the Greek artist given unexpected prominence in these photos. www.phedigital.com

March 2007

Imago Magazine no.22
Contemporary Greek photography is not what one could characterize as ‘well known’ in today’s art scene but there are undoubtedly cases of Greek photographers who have attained in producing engrossing work and have managed to exhibit it abroad; one of these cases is that of the 40-year old Stratos Kalafatis.
Kalafatis didn’t start out his career as a photographer but rather as an athlete who at some point in his life, out of luck, choice or coincidence decided to devote himself to the art of photography and has been doing that since 1993. One of his most original works is the entitled “Journal 1998-2002”, in summary a series of photographs of people, faces, animals, places and objects he took on the island of Skopelos within four years.
Using a special technique, he transforms up to an extent, the real into the surreal, reminding us of the images we see while dreaming or even daydreaming. The invisible and usually ignored uniqueness of simple, ordinary moments of our lives reveal their concealed magic, the one we tend to beglect of forget. Stratos Kalafatis doesn’t keep a written diary; his diary is a picture one… www.sedf.sk

ISSN 1335-1362

February 2007

EU Japan Fest: European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today vol.8
EU-Japan is a creative program of culture held jointly by the EU-Japan Fest Japan Comittee and the Cultural Capital of Europe every since 1993. Our aim has been to make these activities opportunities to contemplate, through culture, the individual existance of human beings.

The plan is for photographers based in Europe to photograph all of the 47 prefectures of Japan based on this theme over the four years beginning in 1999 to create a photographic legacy that can bequeath to the future : www.eu-japanfest.org

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Saga Photo Exhibition Schedule (Japan)

February 2nd (Friday) until 25th (Sunday), 2007 2:00pm
Opening Ceremony: Prefectural Art Museum - Exhibition Rooms 2 & 3, Picture Gallery and Workshop Room.

February 3rd (Sunday) 2007, 2:00pm-3:30pm
A talk including Mr. Kalafatis, Ms. Borghouts, Mr. Nonaka, the curator of the art museum, local photographers (from the Saga Prefecture Photography Association) and Mr. Hideki Kuga. Prefectural Art Museum: Gallery and Workshop Room.

February 4th (Sunday) 2007, 10:00am-4:00pm
Workshop: Prefectural Art Museum: Gallery and Workshop Room.

February 11th (Sunday) 2007, 6:30pm-8:00pm
Book 246: Tokyo, Japan : www.book246.com

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3 October - 11 November 2006
Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
www.kalfayangalleries.com

September 2006

Biennale Architettura di Venecia
10th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice 2006
www.www.labiennale.org/en/