On Thursday, October 24, at the House of Cyprus in Athens, the presentation of the photo album-monograph of the photographer Stefanos Kouratzis, entitled "Ammochostos - The Sorrow of Nosto", as well as the opening of the photography exhibition of the same title.
The Director of the House of Cyprus Diomedes Nikitas welcomed the attendees and then read a greeting from the Archbishop of Nea Justiniana and All Cyprus His Excellency. George.
Dr. Ioannis Toumazis, Director of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, former Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, spoke about the book and the work of the photographer and writer.
With the objection of Stefanos Kouratzis, the presentation of the album was completed and then the opening of the exhibition followed.
The bilingual (in Greek and English) photographic album-monograph by Stefanos Kouratzis, as well as the photo exhibition of the same title, is "the aesthetic rendering of the accessible part of the enclosed city of Famagusta, Varosio where, 50 years after the Turkish invasion and occupation, time seems to have stopped in 1974, creating a surreal cinematic backdrop," reports the House of Cyprus.
The creator himself notes that "at first glance, Varosi seems to carry nothing of its past, but the city, dual, as a ghost wandering in the sands of time but also as an entity with a petrified cry of silence, is testimony for a past that has been violently repressed and remains trapped in a perpetual present, it is the living example of the constant struggle between memory, where the past is a collection of moments that revolutionize and must be rescued, and oblivion, where through the dominant narrative , threatens to eliminate it".
"Starting from Heras Street and ending at Kennedy Avenue, the axis is formed around which the visual narrative was organized in order to highlight the historical dimension of Famagusta, urging the viewer-reader to a multi-dimensional reflection [...]", he adds Stefanos Kouratzis.
