Greek Dog Days - Ilja Niederkirchner
€39.00
198mm x 140mm
Risograph printing
in Black and Medium Blue
First edition of 250, 2020
Greek Dog Days is a shadowed meander through city streets and inter-city roads. Niederkirchner migrates from one desolate scene to the next as if he himself is one of the dogs; vagrant, aimless. Photographs of ghosts of Greece's past follow him as he documents Greece's present. While dark in nature, Niederkirchner’s photographs suggest also the country’s clean slate as it were; perhaps an opportunity for regrowth in a new, hopeful direction.
Wild and dusky with glimpses of affection, the Greece portrayed by Niedderkirchner is misted yet razor-sharp. Greek Dog Days invites us on an entrancing and ominous journey; walks past empty shops, as if abandoned, concrete rules over nature while the stereotype of clear blue greek skys is lacking. Only traces of life are present; laundry hanging from windows, but the people themselves are markedly absent. The dogs are unfaltering in their glare, showing their control.
Greek Dog Days was a recipient of the Volumes Zurich Award, 2020. Greek Dog Days is held in many public and private institutions including the Laimun Residency research Library and the Volumes Zurich Archives. It has been reviewed on C4 journal and signed copies are also available from Cafe lehmitz Photo Book Store.