Tel Aviv, 12th to 17th June 2025

Panolabrou
Jul 19
3 min read

Updated: Jul 21

Unapologetic; March to Bauhaus; Sweet Indifference

"Instead of following the global March to Gaza — a wave of international protests against the assault on Palestinians — I made a solitary decision to travel to Tel Aviv from 12 to 23 June 2025.

The 13th of June marked the first day of the 12-day war with Iran. I was able to remain in Tel Aviv until the 17th, after which the Greek embassy escorted us to Egypt, where we boarded a Greek C-130 military aircraft and flew safely back to Athens the 18th."

"A wide-range photographic project has appeared. An extensive process, which I present as a chronicle to Tel Aviv, from 12th to 16th June, with the title Unapologetic; March to Bauhaus; Sweet Indifference. My primal intention was to study the White City, protected by UNESCO, for its Bauhaus architecture. A research to indicate humanitarian values; unexpectedly, the photographic process includes the first days of the war with Iran. An ongoing inner process appeared, trying to approach the reality of Tel Aviv, where daily facts seem to be unaware of the global accusation of committing genocide against Palestinians."

"This contradiction is to be investigated as a phenomenon in exploring the psychoanalysis of a social attitude. In that way, we can express a new option for such a difficult theme. Without pointing a finger, we add a question to the sociology of art — for people to think twice about what they see and what it might be about."

"Even though I see urban life during the war with Iran and the conflict with Palestine, it is significant to view an option of life beyond criticism. I remain as still, on the thin line of observing all as one. The drama of humanism will not be resolved by photography, but photography can carry a message of purity that is useful to create conscience. The content of my texts following the images can mention historical facts, but writers like Amos Oz and Ilan Pappé, who claimed peace over war, can be useful to make an audience think again about how peace can be possible if war has no end."

"If we want peace, we follow it — even if we enter a conflict zone and a war. We observe in peace. In an impossible mission, focus becomes difficult. They're in a fourth-generation conflict with Palestine, with Hamas's attack within the country two years ago —and while their politics bear colonial traits, the ancestral instinct for survival remains strongly active. The Palestinian flag was nowhere to be seen. At last, the war with Iran appeared. I felt a sense of synchronicity that such a work emerged, overcoming all restrictions. Right now, no one has the will for anything that indicates any sentiment other than the tragedy in Gaza, but my intention in photography guides me to view the other side, so reality can reflect enough to uncover the truth of our times."

"I feel intimacy as a keyword approaching a qualitative view of the outer world, while simultaneously observing the hard core of a cancer cell within myself."

""I suggest you refer to previous projects of mine, researching the meanings of intimacy, irony, and the other side."