Ioanna Sakellaraki is a Greek visual artist and researcher. Her work investigates the relationship between collective cultural memory and fiction. Drawing emphasis on the photographic object, process and encounter, she explores the boundaries of a primitive, yet futuristic vision of places and people.
Boy with an Upe, a traditional headdress worn by men in parts of Bougainville (Autonomous Region of Papua New Guinea) to symbolise their transition to adulthood, outskirts of Buin, Bougainville Island
Thank you @deardavemag for sharing 🔥
From `The Mark of a Terrible Sun`, an intimate portrait of the land and people residing alongside the Pacific Ring of Fire, the world`s most seismically and volcanically active zone.
You can view more from this series on my website via Link in Bio
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On the way to Manam volcano, Bismarck Sea, northeast coast of Papua New Guinea, 2024
A stratovolcano with two active summit craters located on the 10-km island of Manam (Manam Motu), it has been active since 1616 with the most recent eruptions in 2022 when ash emissions reached an altitude of 50,000 ft. I got the opportunity to visit the island earlier this year and spend some valuable time with the local communities living under the shadow of the main summit crater still active. Most of them had lost their homes twice already and had rebuilt the village settlements from scratch over the past two years.
From The Mark of a Terrible Sun, an intimate portrait of the lands and people residing alongside the Pacific Ring of Fire, the world`s most seismically and volcanically active zone.
Photographed under the lava and ashes of past and ongoing volcanic activity and the historical remnants of the Pacific war in the region, the work is primarily concerned with the obscure traces of the disaster as an interspace dealing with ideas of destruction and survival and the exploration of heterotopias that might creatively synthesize new composites and assemblages of interpretation.
The images blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction reflecting upon the possibilities an expanded photographic practice can offer in relation to the disaster as the prompt for future scenarios positioned in the gap between historical knowledge, presentation, the image and narration.
Visit my website via Link in Bio to see and read more about this series
In the meantime, the work is currently featured on the cover and as part of an extensive portfolio accompanied by an essay on climate change and volcanic disasters by Ferdinando Cotugno @esquireitalia
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Chuffed to see my work `The Mark of a Terrible Sun` on the cover and as part of a featured portfolio @esquireitalia accompanied by a text on volcanic disasters and climate change @ferdinandoc
This is the first time I make the project public after two years of shooting its first part on the southwest trench of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the world`s most seismically and volcanically active zone.
Currently pulling my film negatives and scraps of writing from Melanesia together with the aim of updating my website to allow for a deeper insight into the research that has led to the visual language and writing around this project.
For the time being also reflecting on curatorial ideas for upcoming shows in which the series will be exhibited; for the first time as part @photovogue Festival in Milano next March and as a Solo Show in Melbourne next April!
Watch this space. More coming soon 🔥🔥🔥
In the meantime, a big thank you @francescomerlini and Esquire Magazine editors for making this collaboration happen. The magazine is available online and as a hard copy to purchase through the Italian version of the Esquire website!
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Thanks to everyone who came to yesterday`s signing @gost_books @parisphotofair 🥰 Being back to Europe filled me with so much energy 🙏 See you in March at @photovogue Festival in Milano where I will be exhibiting "The Mark of a Terrible Sun" an entirely new body of work from Melanesia for the first time. Now en route for my 24 h flight down under. Until next time les amies 🫡
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