Mega-polis presents a collaboration between photographers Yiorgis Yerolymbos and Nikos Markou revolving around the city and urban space. The two photographers present the phenomenon of urban expansion; cities constantly getting bigger, surpassing natural and artificial frontiers and hiding their abused central area in a sea of perpetual expansion of constructions of reinforced concrete.
“As things stand, (Greek) cities don’t nurture human communities and don’t protect either the historic tradition or nature. To survive, they need to grow, leaving back as a childhood disease the automatic pilot of private speculation that destabilizes them and undermines their productive potential”. (Kiki Kafkoula, Urban Planning Professor, Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki)
Athens is a case study. The photographs of Mega-polis depict the face of the capital; that of the ancient but contemporary at the same time, city, while making an effort to narrate its story as it evolves, avoiding to prettify or cover its imperfections. On the contrary, observing it from a discreet distance they testify their point of view on the expansion of the urban progress of the city and its results.
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