Fragments of Dreams - Panos Kefalos

The view from my window.

25 days of exposure, from a pinhole camera in January and February 2022.

Scan of a 4x5 inch negative.

Words... before I post my photos again.

September 2025.

Back to my city walks.

View of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, October 2018.

Lith printing and selenium toning, October 2024.

A nocturnal insect on my window pane. June 2020.

Scanned 35mm negative.

My long photographic journey into expired special films began with these batches from the 1970s to 1973 era.

A study of self-portraits in my room, February 2020.

Scanned 35mm negatives.

Pigeons in Kotzia Square, Athens, October 2018.

Final silver gelatin print, toned, December 2024.

Filmstrip No. 01.
Kotzia Square, photo taken in December 2018.

Final print the third of December 2024.

First darkroom printing attempts in my apartment.

Silver prints in my home darkroom and notes.

October 2022.

I used to go for walks before the sun went down, photo taken in February - March 2019.

I worked on double weight photographic papers in late 2024.

The beginning of this long-term study, this particular photo from that first special roll of film I used, stuck in my camera for months before I developed it in September 2018.
Point of view, Omonoia square, Athens.

Silver print late 2024.

Subway.

February-March 2019, Athens city center.

Silver print, end of 2024.

The view from Omonoia Square, Athens. January 2019.

Final toned print, December 2024.

Filmstrip No. 01.

One of the entrance escalators at the Omonoia metro station, Athens. October 2018.

Final printing, December 2024.

Filmstrip of the

45th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising.

This is number 32 from the following day in Omonoia, November 18, 2018.

Gold toning in my makeshift darkroom, November 2024.

When the sun sets, it was my time to move quickly through the streets and capture the photos. The great contrast, when the sun's rays hit the objects and create the long shadows.

A magic.

December 2018.

Silver gelatin print, toned. Last months of 2024.

On December 6, 2008, a 15-year-old child was killed by a police officer in Exarcheia, Athens.

The photograph was taken in Exarcheia in 2018, the day after the riots, protests and demonstrations.

Lith darkroom processing, toned print. December 2024.

I bonded with this place, for almost 6 years that I was there, an old apartment 27 square meters on the 2nd floor in Exarcheia, Athens.

I took the last photos at the end of December 2024.

A contact print from a 4x5 inch negative, sourced from a special film that has been discontinued, an expired stock over seventy years old, forgotten with a dusty and moldy cover.

The end of the film numbers 34, 35 and 36. Last batch of films, Fall 2020.

Scanned 35mm negatives.

Eva.

Winter 2020.

Scanned 35mm negative.

Together.
Spring 2020.

Lith printing. April 25, 2024.

Walks in the National Garden of Athens.
Summer 2020.

Lith print. April 2024.

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