The series “A raven’s dream” is an attempt to deal with the uncanny (“unheimlich”), to dive into an age of innocence where everything seemed to be mysterious, enigmatic, sometimes ominous. It is an attempt to explore a place where “all that was meant to be hidden have been exposed to the light”, an attempt to reconstruct indistinct memories, to confront my childhood phobias and to exorcise them.
The whole experience of making these pictures has a redemptive intensity, as I expose myself to an almost psychoanalytic process.
Stavros Stamatiou is an amateur photographer, born in Kozani-Greece in 1965. He studied at the Pedagogical Academy of Heraklion and since 1988 he has been working as a teacher in public education. He currently lives in the Municipality of Thermaikos. He is a member of the Photography Center of Thessaloniki, Little Box Collective and the Klikers photography team. He has attended photography lessons with Tasos Schizas and art photography seminars with Plato Rivellis, Stratos Kalafatis, Paris Petrides and Iraklis Papaioannou. He has also participated in workshops with photographers Eva Voutsaki, Nikos Economopoulos, Michael Ackerman, Achilles Nasios and Jason Eskenazi and portfolio reviews with Haris Kakarouhas and Jacob Aue Sobol. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, in photography festivals in Greece and abroad and published in reputed Greek and foreign journals – printed and online – and photography websites.
