The Fumes of Mars
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Published by GOST September 2025
Essays by Michael Herzfeld and Yiannis Gabriel
195 x 255 mm
232pp, 101 images
Hardback
ISBN 978-1-915423-88-7
Katerina Angelopoulou
55,00€
‘A large wildfire has a very distinctive sound. No one can tell you unless they have been in one. It is a sound that can haunt you…’
One of the deadliest wildfires ever recorded took place on 23 July 2018 just 30km from the historical centre of Athens in Greece. Artist Katerina Angelopoulou survived the fire and her forthcoming book The Fumes of Mars combines her photographs with personal testimonies from other survivors, timelines, maps and reports. With these materials Angelopoulou attempts to weave together a collective narrative of the events to better understand the violent disconnect between her own experience and the ‘official’ account of the disaster in which facts were concealed and victims held culpable.
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Katerina Angelopoulou is an artist based in Athens. 'The Fumes of Athens' won Format Festival’s Reviewers Choice Award 2022, was selected for and featured in the COCA Project 2021, shortlisted for the Belfast Dummy Award and Photo Festival in 2022, and exhibited at LCC in London as part of the Common Ground Exhibition. Angelopoulou holds a BSc in Mathematics & Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London, a BA in Design for Performance from Central Saint Martin’s and a MA with Distinction in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography from LCC.
