Sailing to Inner Habitats, a Green Project photo exhibition

The photo exhibition of the non-profit organisation Green Project (www.green-project.org) under the title “Sailing to inner habitats” has been selected to be presented in the context of the Athens Photo Festival 2018.

In September 2017, the Green Project NGO (www.green-project.org) realised in the context of the Green Photo Cruises in the Ionian Sea, an innovative photo sailing cruise to isolated sea ecosystems and remote water habitats. Seven Greek artists attempt to capture in photographs, their on-board experience. They experiment gazing the dry land from the sea, rather than vice-versa that is usually the case. How the sea sees us? Photography as self-critique in search of our reflection on the environment. We are the sea and the sea is “we”.

A cruise to our inner selves, sailing together with dolphins (delphinus rhinoceros) off the coast of Lefkas, out of the river Acheron Delta, further from Paxos and Antipaxos, in the archipelago of Maganisi, Atokos and Kalamos, to the water habitats of Kioni in Ithaca, to the seal-holes of monachus-monachus in Kastos, among the caretta-caretta sea turtles in Zakynthos, till the posidonia oceanica colonies in the desolate Strofadia. The photographers who participate are: Katerina Charterou, Valeria Kaltezioti, Danae Stavros, Stephanos Stavros, Yannis Tzortzis, Sandy Vergitsi and Nikolas Zacharopoulos. The exhibition curator is Yannis Tzortzis, Member of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. The initiative “Green Photo Cruises” has been materialised in cooperation with the National Zakynthos Marine Park and the EYsailing, from the deck of the sailing yacht Lito with the skippers Panos Koniavitis and Elias Kantzos, based on an idea by Christiana Kazakou.