In May 2016 at the Delphi Center I attended a four-day seminar on “Traces and Ruins” taught by photographer and author Platon Rivellis. The content was focused on the photography of the archeological site and the Museum of Delphi, in order to highlight the relationship of photography with the meaning of the trail, the dimension of memory, with the fragments of space and time, the senses and the imagination.
During the four days the 82 participants we had the opportunity, in the morning, to photograph the antiquities and to submit our photos for evaluation in the afternoon during the lectures.
Six months later a photo exhibition with the same theme was held in the Exhibition Hall of the Conference Center in Delphi, curated by Platon Rivellis.This portfolio is a personal journey
into the silent tension of Delphi
and the invisible traces the stone still carries.
In Delphi, stone is not merely material.
It is energy, memory, and a silence that feels alive.
Through its engravings, fractures, and curves,
a subtle sense of presence emerges.
In this photographic series, I seek
to understand the way the place breathes.
Light carves new lines upon the old ones.
Stone becomes skin, the landscape becomes form—
a trace that continues to shift—
and the site opens a quiet dialogue with my body.
The images follow a circular, associative rhythm.
From detail to whole and back again,
as matter transforms into body
and the body returns to stone.
Here, photography becomes a way of listening.
It does not explain, but receives.
It allows space, light, and time
to articulate their own presence.
