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Nikos Aliagas is one of the photographers exhibiting as part of the MAP festival, which has been taking place since Thursday in the Saint-Cyprien district of Toulouse. He will be at the Flashback Café this Wednesday evening to talk about his work.
Nikos Aliagas is not just a journalist or a TV presenter. He is also a passionate and renowned photographer, even if he always claims an “amateur” side to his approach. This year, as part of the Toulouse MAP festival, he is exhibiting a selection of his photos in the Château d’eau gallery, temporarily relocated to the MATOU premises, allées Charles de Fitte, in Toulouse.
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A photographer for thirty years, he has been showing his images for about fifteen years. His “humanist” photos and his works explore the meanders of the human soul, through his travels. Among his favorite themes are Greece and the peoples of the sea, childhood, old age, travel, nomadic souls, the sacred, workers of the land, nostalgia for return. He was inspired from his youth by humanist photographers, such as Sabine Weiss, Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Willy Ronis.
For this exhibition, the MAP festival gave him carte blanche. He was approached more than a year ago by Ulrich Lebeuf, the artistic director of the festival. At the MATOU, he exhibits works made in the past. But Nikos Aliagas also came to spend a few days in Toulouse at the end of last June, in order to take photos on the sidelines of this exhibition, for his pleasure. He photographed people in the street as well as in the Victor-Hugo market and gave us an interview on this occasion.
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He will be present this Wednesday, at 5pm, at the Flashback Café, one of the partners of the MAP festival, to discuss his work, evoke his inspirations and his creative processes, and comment on his works. A screening of his photographs is planned for this occasion. He will also sign books, during a moment of sharing with the public, alongside other photographers, including Letizia Le Fur, Olivier Laban-Mattei and Lisandru Laban-Giullian.
