Description
Editors: Tiffany Jones, Sylvia Sachini
Design: Manos Tzavolakis, Tiffany Jones
Cover graphic + typeface: Manos Tzavolakis
Strawberry Blue
Marinos Tsagkarakis
£28
A meditative work photographed in an alluring local park in the Netherlands; Strawberry Blue began in the aftermath of the artist’s migration north from Greece, where soon after arrival he was badly injured in a road accident. An arduous recovery process — along with upheaval in adapting to an unfamiliar environment — triggered an inner quest for belonging and identity redefinition. Over years Tsagkarakis routinely wandered through the park terrain, observing its nuances and dreamlike setting while interacting with strangers and all living things. In portraits he glimpses reflections of himself, where echoes of his own struggles are in dialogue with the tangled, evolving landscape. Strawberry Blue feels out of kilter at times, like laughing while crying. It’s about resilience, persistence and growing new roots… We are invited on this journey with minds open to the unknown, allowing the path ahead to lead us where it will.
FIRST Edition Hardcover, 215 x 165mm portrait
126pp with 69 photographs and illustrations
Section sewn with foil on cover and spine
Text by Marinos Tsagkarakis
ISBN 9781738130047
Reviews + Press
“Tsagkarakis mobilizes color as both surface and rupture. The titular contradiction (strawberry versus blue) signals the book’s central tension: sweetness undone by displacement, familiarity turned improbable. That sense of being slightly out of place… Objects and bodies are often rendered in hyperreal clarity, but they rarely resolve into stable meaning. In a way, the park becomes a surreal, theatrical stage where the boundaries between the internal psyche and the external landscape completely dissolve… As images echo one another across the sequencing, the book develops a calm, reflective rhythm that feels closer to the way memories surface and reconnect over time.”
– Olga Yatskevich, Collector Daily
See more:
Collector Daily review by Olga Yatskevich
Urbanautica interview with Steve Bisson
Special Notes
Friday 24 April, 20:00 at Stereosis School of Photography, Thessaloniki – Exhibition + Book Presentation / Launch
28 March, 14:00 at Nederlands Fotomuseum – Book Launch and Signing of advance copies at Art Rotterdam / Unseen Book Market
