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These Earthly Shores (signed)

by Daphne Kotsiani

Photographs: Daphne Kotsiani

Text: Poems by Dimitris Leontzakos

Publisher: Origini Edizioni

80 black and white pages

Pictures: 34

Year: 2025

Price: 56 €

Comments: Editing by Ilias Georgiadis and Daphne Kotsiani. Book Design by Matilde Vittoria Laricchia. Handmade realization by Eugenia Koval Languages: Greek and English. Paper: Biancoflash Ivory 80 gr Favini, Transwhite 70 and 200 gr Thiebierge & Comar, Lightest Camoscio 80 gr Favini. Eyelets binding. 150 copies numbered and signed.

"These Earthly Shores" is a corpus of images that explores the definition and origin of the poetic landscape as it relates to memory and the passage of time. The geography of the place becomes a depiction of a peculiar natural beauty that emerges as a recollection rather than a faithful representation of its physical form. The natural world is transformed into a set of symbolic portraits that reflect the emotional connection to various pasts, the senses, the complexities, the nostalgic and invisible stories woven into the humane.

The creation of a new context is proposed inside the book by incorporating poems by the Greek poet Dimitris Leontzakos. The poems do not impose a way to interpret the pictures nor the pictures define the form and the content of the poems. Instead, a multilayered flow of poetry appears to co-exist. The relationship created by the poems and the images transforms that context into a completely new and organic, a non-linear narrative.

People Will Slowly Rise

“To love is to think”
-Alberto Caeiro, The Amorous shepherd

People will slowly rise
They will sail again

They will travel
They will become a voyage
– golden wind –
They will return to water

/ the transparent tomb of words /

-Dimitris Leontzakos

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These Earthly Shores (signed)

by Daphne Kotsiani

Photographs: Daphne Kotsiani

Text: Poems by Dimitris Leontzakos

Publisher: Origini Edizioni

80 black and white pages

Pictures: 34

Year: 2025

Price: 56 €

Comments: Editing by Ilias Georgiadis and Daphne Kotsiani. Book Design by Matilde Vittoria Laricchia. Handmade realization by Eugenia Koval Languages: Greek and English. Paper: Biancoflash Ivory 80 gr Favini, Transwhite 70 and 200 gr Thiebierge & Comar, Lightest Camoscio 80 gr Favini. Eyelets binding. 150 copies numbered and signed.

"These Earthly Shores" is a corpus of images that explores the definition and origin of the poetic landscape as it relates to memory and the passage of time. The geography of the place becomes a depiction of a peculiar natural beauty that emerges as a recollection rather than a faithful representation of its physical form. The natural world is transformed into a set of symbolic portraits that reflect the emotional connection to various pasts, the senses, the complexities, the nostalgic and invisible stories woven into the humane.

The creation of a new context is proposed inside the book by incorporating poems by the Greek poet Dimitris Leontzakos. The poems do not impose a way to interpret the pictures nor the pictures define the form and the content of the poems. Instead, a multilayered flow of poetry appears to co-exist. The relationship created by the poems and the images transforms that context into a completely new and organic, a non-linear narrative.

People Will Slowly Rise

“To love is to think”
-Alberto Caeiro, The Amorous shepherd

People will slowly rise
They will sail again

They will travel
They will become a voyage
– golden wind –
They will return to water

/ the transparent tomb of words /

-Dimitris Leontzakos

More books by Daphne Kotsiani