warn'd in vain
'Warn'd in Vain' , Dirtyharrry's first book, a NYC tale based on the myth of Jason and the Argonauts.
The exiled son will fight all kings and will never become a king himself. Warn'd in vain, a coup leader can't hide from the one sandal man, who - warn'd in vain - will walk the path and lose everything. During the 7 months i spent in New York, i asked one of my favorite childhood books to help me sail inside the world’s most photographed city
The exiled son will fight all kings and will never become a king himself. Warn'd in vain, a coup leader can't hide from the one sandal man, who - warn'd in vain - will walk the path and lose everything. During the 7 months i spent in New York, i asked one of my favorite childhood books to help me sail inside the world’s most photographed city
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red wall corner, uptown manhattan, 2016
manhattan, brooklyn bridge, 2014
sleeping girl, nyc subway, 2015
adam clayton powell jr statue, harlem, 2015
leather mask man, nyc subway, 2016
muslim in hasidic jewish neighbourhood, williamsburg, 2015
world trade center, ground zero, 2017
hooded men & girl, brooklyn, 2016
man with glasses, midtown manhattan, 2014
worker, midtown manhattan, 2016
yellow gloves, chinatown, 2015
lipstick lady, ground zero, 2016
squirrel on fence, madison square park, 2015
blonde girl, downtown manhattan, 2015
A5 size, 200 pages, print run of 1000 copies.
145 images, made during 7 months in 6 trips to NYC between 2014-2017.
' Warn'd in Vain ' is my first book, a NYC tale based on the myth of Jason and the Argonauts. It will be self-published in cooperation with Istanbul Fotoğrafevi .
The book is a twin tale of ' Back to Nowhere ', shot in my island, Crete, inspired by the myth of Theseus & Minotaur, hopefully to be published in the future.
145 images, made during 7 months in 6 trips to NYC between 2014-2017.
' Warn'd in Vain ' is my first book, a NYC tale based on the myth of Jason and the Argonauts. It will be self-published in cooperation with Istanbul Fotoğrafevi .
The book is a twin tale of ' Back to Nowhere ', shot in my island, Crete, inspired by the myth of Theseus & Minotaur, hopefully to be published in the future.
Any help by buying this book or spreading the word for this crowdfunding campaign is much appreciated.
Thank you
h.
Some words by Gus Powell from a 2016 Time magazine article :
' I had a great uncle Frank “Yaki” Yakimovich whom I met only once at a family reunion in 1982. He was what you call a rock hound. I remember he led me to his faded Arizona car, opened the trunk, and pulled out a roundish rock, a hammer, and a chisel. With a single strike, he cracked open the rock. The center was luminous with crystals. “It’s a geode!” Uncle Yaki put it in my hand. I stared at it, and at him, and then back at the rock. My eight-year-old mind was blown. I have never looked at a rock the same way. The work of Charalampos “Harry” Kydonakis makes me think of geodes and the wonder I felt when I first encountered them. Harry doesn’t use photography to stop time and describe space. He uses his camera and flash like a hammer and chisel to crack open time and space. He shows you what was there, and then he shows you a bit more than what was there. The work has some of the moody beauty I see in Gueorgui Pinkhassov, the deep regional and narrative integrity I feel from Cristóbal Hara, and the raunchy dark comedy of late Philip Guston. When Harry, who is known as “dirty harrry” online, speaks about his photographs he talks about “his island” and “his village.” He talks about girls, animals, and shadows. The pictures have details that repel and attract; they have a smell, they have a breeze. The more you look at the work, the more you think that there is indeed an island, a village, that looks like this all the time. A place where faces go black or are lit from below, where animals and kites appear unexpectedly, where people from the present, past, and future mingle. His pictures flirt with the ironic, at times they border on the insane, and yet the car stays on the road... I believe in this place, Kydonakis’ island, pictures that make me feel like I’m moving back and forth between the concrete and the imagined, revealing depths that surprise and inspire. I believe that Kydonakis knows how to find and open geodes. '
Charalampos Kydonakis aka dirtyharrry : born and raised in Crete, studied architecture in Thessaloniki, currently working as an architect in Crete. Dirtyharrry has participated in exhibitions in Greece and abroad, his images have been featured in various online and printed publications. In 2017 Void in Athens designed and published the zine "I hate Sundays" with images from a day he hates. Since 2015 he's a member of the iN-PUBLiC collective and he is editing the dirty blog with photos of his own and the people who inspire him.
mINOTAUr
Inspired by Homer's Odyssey, this is a tale about my island, the only place I will never have the chance to see how it looks like in the eyes of a stranger...
"mINOTAUr" is a twin brother of the Iliad inspired "DIRTY AS SNOW' book, printed by QQQQ in YEARR.
24 rhapsodies, 130 images, shot between 2008-2016
Poseidon' wrath, Souda, 20
Eagle omen, Rethymnon, 20
Odysseus, PLACEEEEEE, 20
Athena's tailwind, PLACEEEEEE, 20
Menelaus' weddings, PLACEEEEEE, 20
My name is nobody, PLACEEEEEE, 20
Penelope, PLACEEEEEE, 20
Nausica's dream, PLACEEEEEE, 20
Aeolus' bags, PLACEEEEEE, 20
Penelope, PLACEEEEEE, 20
Photos, design by dirtyharrry
Any help by buying this book or spreading the word to help this crowdfunding campaign is appreciated.
Thanks
h.
