"Street as a Mirror” by Stavros Stamatiou
“Street as a Mirror” is the first book of the Greek photographer Stavros Stamatiou, with a foreword by Stella Johnson and Ermis Kasapis. Over 120 photographs show how reality connects with fantasy.
“Street as a Mirror” autographed by Stavros Stamatiou will be available for a maximum of 3 releases:
- 1st Drop (120 White Editions, 3 exclusive postcards): Available.
- 2nd Drop (150 White Editions): coming soon.
Black Edition: Available.
Product Details / Black edition
Limited Edition Print 1/30
The White and Black Editions differ in one thing and one thing only.
Each Black Edition contains one unique Fine Art Photograph (30×21 cm – printed on Hahnemühle FineArt paper with pigment inks and tested for longevity) that has never been printed for sale before. Available through the purchasing of this book only.
Eyeshot aims to keep every publication limited-edition in quantity and quality.
Exclusive Gift
3 limited edition postcards
Only the first 150 orders will receive 3 limited edition postcards signed by Stavros Stamatiou.
The best Street Photography experience you can have delivered directly to your doorstep.
Made in Italy
Fedrigoni Papers / Symbol Tatami
Eyeshot uses only papers from Fedrigoni, an Italian paper mill founded in 1888 in Verona. All Fedrigoni’s papers are FSC® certified, made from pure ECF pulp. Every product is fully biodegradable and recyclable.
Symbol Tatami White 135g/m2 is a thick paper coated on both sides with a Matt finish. Its volume and thickness give it a remarkable textural consistency that makes it ideal for prestigious publications such as Eyeshot’s monographs.
Credentials
EFC: ELEMENTARY CHLORINE FREE / It’s an environmentally friendly type of paper that has been bleached with products free of elemental chlorine. By replacing it with chlorine dioxide, polluting emissions are reduced by 90%.
FSC® MIX / The Forest Stewardship Council is one of the internationally recognised forestry certification systems, which guarantees the proper management of forests and the traceability of the resulting products.
HEAVY METAL ABSENCE / Paper and packaging are produced in a way that allows them to be reused and recycled. The absence of harmful metals and other substances and materials that are hazardous to human health is guaranteed.
LONG LIFE: ISO 9706 / This certification ensures that paper production recycles more CO2 than it emits, thus reducing the release of CO2 into the atmosphere that causes global warming. In compliance with ISO 9706 standards, the paper we use is acid-free which gives it resistance to light, wear and tear, and durability over time. It can be stored for up to 200 years.
© Stavros Stamatiou
The Photographer
Stavros Stamatiou
Stavros Stamatiou is a Greek photographer and teacher based in Peraia, Greece. He grew up at the edge of a small town known for its electric power industries—however, he had always been very close to nature and his dear grandparents, refugees from Asia Minor. Their stories about the past fired up not only his imagination but a profound excitement about everything that was carrying the traces of time.
The monograph
“Street as a Mirror”
As the first book of the Greek photographer, “Street as a Mirror” is a powerful depiction of the world in which we all live. For Stavros, each and every photograph must be candid and unstaged—he captures the ‘making in the making’ of every moment, observing reality as it becomes an experience. Like Ermis Kasapis put it, some would say that this is the magic of photographic art.
© Stavros Stamatiou
In details
The photographic journey
“The bizarre, the surreal, the hidden, the poetry of everyday life”, are the things that inspire Stavros Stamatiou. He photographs without a plan, at all hours of the day and night. “Street as a Mirror” is an attempt to impress on paper this strong connection with his subconscious, the counterpoint between the depiction of reality and fantasy at the level of one’s experience.
The photographer's vision
“I feel deeply attracted to the surrealism of everyday life and the poetry of ordinary things […] that can be used to create my own reality, my photographic world. After all, photography is [nothing but] a lie”.
