Artist presentation
Akis Detsis
Akis Detsis was born in Athens, Greece in 1963. He has been involved with photography since 1991.
He has published five photobooks (IMPRINT / 2024, STILL LIFE / 2019, PROJECTION / 2017, TIME IN-BETWEEN / 2008, SPACES / 1998).
He has completed six solo exhibitions (1998, 2000, 2008, 2017, 2022, 2024) and has participated in various group shows and publications.
His work has been published in several photographic magazines and sites and presented in many photographic events.

Artist statement
In my occasional getaways from the city where I live, I wander around the countryside in places I have already visited in the past or unknown. I often return to familiar places which I still remember as natural, untouched and ideal. But I increasingly realize that the landscape comes into view in a form different than the one imprinted in my memory, a form now more and more determined by human intervention.
I see things that once existed, but no longer. My gaze is attracted by deserted spaces, by unnatural shapes, by bizarre structures, remnants of human presence. I try to see beyond the facts, to comprehend the significance of the new scenery spreading before me.