Lost Thing Found
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Author Antonis Theodoridis
Published by Hyper Hypo
72 pages, 20 × 25 cm
Spiral-bound softcover
ISBN: 9786188664692
Antonis Theodoridis
30,00€
Lost Things Found is the outcome of a long-term photographic project exploring the Eleonas flea market in Athens. It’s a photo book about the curious world of things: how they come together in the most unexpected and mind-boggling ways, telling stories about history, identity, and connection.
In the photographer’s own words:
“There’s a joke going around Athens that everything you’ve ever lost eventually ends up in the market of Eleonas. Often you hear stories of apartments being looted for valuables immediately after their tenants are gone. But mostly it’s just business as usual: old stock of unsold products, food, clothes, tools, and everyday accessories, simply sold cheaper than market price. Most people spend most of their lives earning a living: one person’s loss is another’s gain. What someone has forgotten, another gets to remember”
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Antonis Theodoridis is an Athens-based artist, working in the medium of Photography. He is a Fulbright Foundation scholar and holds a Photography MFA degree from the University of Hartford, USA. His practice is a mixture of traditional analogue photography along with digital processes, research, collage, and printing. Using large-format view cameras, he depicts places and people producing sharp in detail and rich in colour pigment prints. Following a road trip across the Western States in 2014, his work Newspaper from the American West was published in Greece by Agra Publications. Through his studio work, he critically examines how archival images reflect and shape western culture, emphasising the notions of cultural bias and the limits of historical knowledge. His process aims to reinvent context and meaning through collage and installation. In 2018, collaborating with the MNHA Museum in Luxembourg, he produced his work Unknown Relics / Relics of the Unknown, a still-life project exploring blind spots of museological practice by employing and photographing museum artefacts of unknown origin. His work has been presented in Greece and abroad and can be found in the collections of the EIB Institute, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki.
