Yorgos Yatromanolakis

Image from "Farewell to the Night” project by Yorgos Yatromanolakis

Biography

Website: https://www.yatrom.net/

Instagram: @yorgos.yatromanolakis

Yorgos Yatromanolakis is a visual artist based in Athens, working with experimental photography, analogue printing, artists’ books, and audiovisual installations. His work has been exhibited internationally and received distinctions including FOAM Talent (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam). He has published four books, among them The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings (VOID) and Farewell to the Night (IIKKI). He is co-founder of ZOETROPE ATHENS and editor of Phases magazine.

The project

Farewell to the Night looks at fatherhood as an existential journey, full of contradictions, inner struggles, and constant change. It reflects a new way of being, where responsibility coexists with disquiet, and vulnerability is bound to tenderness and unconditional love. At the same time, the photographic series places fatherhood in the here and now, within a fragile and uncertain world and inside a new emerging reality where the values and beliefs we once relied on seem to be falling apart. In this light, Farewell to the Night acts not only as an emotional topography of a father’s inner world, but also an imagined safe space, a quiet, protective place for him and his child to hold on to.

Image from "Farewell to the Night” project by Yorgos Yatromanolakis

Image from "Farewell to the Night” project by Yorgos Yatromanolakis