Το Επιμελητήριο των Ευχών: Σπύρος Παλούκης @ TEDx Thessaloniki 13/04/2013

Can fairy tales speak the truth or the magic? For Spyros Paloukis, a photographer and writer, fairy tales remind us what we tend to forget as we grow older: that the difference between the two, whether it exists or not, doesn’t really matter. And although fairy tales are typically considered innocent, they are rather truthful: they are about us and the others, about the human features and the power of nature, the good and the evil, the beauty and the ugliness, the love and the hatred. Like a hero, in the fairy tale of our life we have a chance to find the magic key to our own chamber of wishes.

Spyros Paloukis is a freelance photographer, writer and publisher of Magic Box & Fata Morgana Editions. He studied Information Technology and Photography in Thessaloniki and has also obtained a Master’s degree in American Studies from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Spyros was nominated as one of the top ten young Greek photographers by the Hellenic Centre for Photography, after presenting his work at the International Month of Photography (APhF:08). Although he is a photographer, writing is his greatest love. His photobook “Daydreaming: 100 Greeks in Belgium dream of Greece” was published in 2010 in five languages and was presented at the 15th Biennale of Young Artists at the European Parliament in Brussels. He has published 5 books and was nominated as one of the best writers publishing their first book by the literary magazine “Diavazo” for the year 2008-‘09. He recently published the unique photo fairy-tale “Wonderwood”, which was exhibited at Thessaloniki’s Photobiennale in November 2012.

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