KOSOVO 1999
This age has been called the age of the image. Day in, day out, we are surrounded by dozens of images; we come into contact with them whether we want to or not.
The fact that modern man "consumes" vast quantities of visual material results in an impassivity towards it, or at best in a very superficial reading of it.
The mass media, competing for audience ratings, reduce everything to a game of impressing the spectator. Even in the case of war, their attitude remains the same. The visual material that reaches the viewer contains "exclusive pictures direct from the scene": impressive explosions, startling colours, and anything else that might attract the greatest possible number of viewers. It constitutes an easily digestible version of the event, enriched with scenarios and even wholly fabricated images. In such a context information seems to be shunted aside, yielding its place to mere spectacle.
Christos Kalos was born in Thessaloniki in 1979. He studied applied and art photography at the city's ESP School of Photography, and has also taken lessons in freehand drawing. His work has been displayed in three group exhibitions held at ESP.
