The decision to utilize the former royal estate of Tatoi led me to contribute to its message of modernization, which seeks to blend the past with the future, preserving historical memories and raising questions.
This is exactly my vision. Through the flashes of the camera lens and the capture of the moment, I aim to illuminate moments of history and provide the opportunity for both older and younger generations to take a journey back in time, seeking remembrance or knowledge through different sources. In order to meet chronologically in the present, despite our different starting points. The catalyst in this journey of knowledge, which features kings and princes as protagonists but is not a fairy tale, is photography. In a period dense with events, both national and international.
So, using my father's index descriptions, the narratives in newspapers and magazines of the time that framed and highlighted the most significant photographic frames, as well as the current events of the National Audiovisual Archive, I attempted to recreate an era with a narrative that resembles a screenplay.

Alexia Koulouri