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    The Provincial

    by Antonis Giakoumakis

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    "The Provincial"

    Τι να γράψω για την επαρχία και μάλιστα για την δική μου επαρχία, αφού όλα είναι αντιφατικά μέσα μου.
    Συναισθήματα αντικρουόμενα. Μνήμες καλές μα και στενάχωρες.
    Ας «μιλήσουν» οι στίχοι του Χριστιανόπουλου και οι φωτογραφίες μου (στο βαθμό που θα τα καταφέρουν)!

    Δεν ξέρω αν έφυγα από συνέπεια
    ή από ανάγκη να ξεφύγω από τον εαυτό μου,
    τη στενή και μικρόχαρη Ιθάκη
    με τα χριστιανικά της σωματεία
    και την ασφυκτική της ηθική.

    Πάντως δεν ήταν λύση· ήταν ημίμετρο.

    Κι από τότε κυλιέμαι από δρόμο σε δρόμο αποχτώντας πληγές κι εμπειρίες.
    Οι φίλοι που αγάπησα έχουνε πια χαθεί
    κι έμεινα μόνος, τρέμοντας μήπως με δει κανένας
    που κάποτε του μίλησα για ιδανικά...

    Τώρα επιστρέφω με μιαν ύστατη προσπάθεια
    να φανώ άψογος, ακέραιος, επιστρέφω
    κι είμαι, Θεέ μου, σαν τον άσωτο που αφήνει
    την αλητεία, πικραμένος, και γυρνάει
    στον πατέρα τον καλόκαρδο, να ζήσει
    στους κόλπους του μιαν ασωτία ιδιωτική.

    τον Ποσειδώνα μέσα μου τον φέρνω,
    που με κρατάει πάντα μακριά·
    μα κι αν ακόμα δυνηθώ να προσεγγίσω,
    τάχα η Ιθάκη θα μου βρει τη λύση;
    Author website
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    • Primary Category: Biographies & Memoirs
    • Additional Categories Street Photography
    • Project Option: Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
      # of Pages: 126
    • Publish Date: Nov 10, 2019
    • Language Greek
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    About the Creator
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    Antonis Giakoumakis
    Athens , Greece

    I was born and raised in Chania, Crete. Now I live in Chalandri, Attica. I have been dealing with photography systematically since 2012. Until then I was absorbed by IT for 37 years! I have attended many seminars and participated in group exhibitions and competitions. Many of my photographic sequences (series) have been published mainly in foreign but also in Greek magazines and specialized websites. Photography, one or more click that capture an event, a scene, immobilizing time in the space where it takes place. This inadvertently creates a new reality or better consciousness that you feel the need to share with others, with the expectation of understanding. I consider photography to be the art of perception as a result of a "representation" of unpredictable moments. In any case, human life is full of images, events that are registered in our memory as photographs.

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