Self-Portrait (The Cover)
Becoming my own myth...
I never planned for this image to travel so far.
It began as an experiment — a quiet self-portrait made late one evening when I wanted to visualise a feeling I couldn’t describe. I became the subject simply because I was there, because I could mould myself into the character I imagined.
Somehow, this image found its way into the world — selected as Photo of the Day by Oneeyeland, featured on the cover of Art Muse Magazine, chosen as a cover image by Axionart for Platforms Project, and even printed as the lead image for Protothema (the national Greek newspaper) article covering the Athens art fair.
Watching it appear in so many different contexts reminded me that sometimes a single photograph carries more than one life.
I’ve always turned to self-portraiture as a way of thinking with the body. In front of the lens I can be anyone: the dreamer, the survivor, the fool. It is not about vanity, it is a way of giving shape to the thoughts that otherwise have no words.
This image, unexpectedly, became that translation. It spoke for me before I could speak for it.
