Nikos Liapis

“…you should blog about your trips around the world”.

A friend’s comment, a couple of days ago that captured my imagination and led to this entry. The first of hopefully many.

If this is going to be a log of my photography work as I’m passing through places in the world, what better place to start than Paris on this special date! Paris, a city that has never fully won my heart. A city, however, which I associate with some of the fondest and most personal memories in my my life. So here’s a commemorative cliché seen through my eyes. It’s part of my “blurry world” project. A long-term study of famous world monuments, photographed at night and blurred to the bare limits of recognition. A project of shapes, lights and dreamy atmospheres. A series of images that force the viewer to linger on them just a little longer as they exercise their cognitive faculties to make out what they’re looking at. My vision, my perception.