EXERCISE 14

Documenting journeys
“The only true voyage of discovery… …would be not to visit strange lands, but to
possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another.”
Marcel Proust
Every one of us is journeying through time and journeys are often the start of stories: of an
observer, the outsider, seeing the familiar from a different perspective. As discoveries of the
strange yet familiar, journeys lend themselves to illustrating sequences, narrative, and the
production of series of images. This is often the basis of documentary photography;
photographs ‘about something’, rather than photographs ‘of something’.

Research point
Go online and find out more about the bodies of work listed above. Can you find
some other examples of photography documenting a journey through time and/or space (see
Project 3)?

Photo road trip of Greece

Instead of finding photography documenting a journey, I have decided to show a journey through time and space of a small part of my beautiful country: Greece.

The pictures can give an idea of the breathtaking landscape and could be photos of a tourist guide, a travel agency, or of someone who just driven along the picturesque sites and experienced the magic of the glorious Greek summer. They were all taken in the island of Peloponnese( south part of the country) and as they go along they lure you in to be part of this wonderful experience:

…May your journey be a long one; full of adventure. Full of discovery…
Sunrise
A fishing village

…And a Greek fisherman
Beautiful landscapes

And old villages with tower houses
The most famous Greek product: olives; Raw
…And consumable
and mythical Hesperides’s golden apples: ORANGES.
A lighthouse observing the Aegean sea.
a ship wreck left in the mercy of the elements
crystal clear waters!!!
vine yards and olive trees
cypresses between olive and orange trees
A remote church
Bee hives; Greek honey is world known for its unique quality.
Dunes, by the sea: sculptured from the wind
the Diros cave; according to Greek mythology, was one of the gates to the underworld
Sunset
Greece in one picture!

I have tried to give a glimpse of how a road trip in a part of mainland of Greece would be. I have put myself in the position of a curious tourist who would want to discover not only the country but also its people, some of the products is famous for but also the scenery besides the white and blue houses; this is only a very small part of the country but can give a better view of how time and space can be observed in that wonderful time of the world.