“New Surroundings” is a photographic project I initiated after moving from urban environments to a remote village in North Evia. It documents my new surroundings, capturing relationships with myself, nature, and the local community. This project extends my previous work on urban and human environments into the rural context of North Evia.
The project explores the relationship between the landscape and personal transformation, focusing on how both human and environmental well-being reflect each other. Surrounded by nature’s rhythms, photography became my way of capturing and understanding this landscape I was now part of; a space where humans and animals coexist, bound together by the land’s resilience and its suffering, each reflecting and influencing the other. In Evia, a fragile land marked by natural disasters including wildfires, droughts, and floods, the interaction between humans, animals, and the land itself has acquired a deeper significance. My work documents this coexistence; a delicate balance of resilience and vulnerability shared between the land and those who inhabit it.
