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# Nikos Markou - Photography

Professional Photographer

## Pages

- [Home](https://nikosmarkou.com/) - Nikos Markou is a Greek artist who was born in 1959. Nikos Markou has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Onassis Cultural Centre and at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.
- [Solid State](https://nikosmarkou.com/solid-state/) - Solid State
- [INNER SPACE](https://nikosmarkou.com/inner-space/) - Inner SpaceEach atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. — Though it may seem odd, Sisyphus is happy. All Sisyphus’ silent joy is contained therein. His fate belongs to him. His rock is a thing. The rock is still rolling. Nikos Markou’s new work reveals
- [LAKE PLASTIRA 2018](https://nikosmarkou.com/lake-plastira/) - Lake PlastiraLake Plastira is an artificial lake which was created in 1959 in order to supply with water the greater area of Thessaly, in Central Greece. On December 5th, 1959, just two months after it was filled with water, twenty people who were working at the construction site decided to cross the lake by boat
- [Privacy Policy](https://nikosmarkou.com/privacy-policy/) - Who we are Our website address is: https://nikosmarkou.com. What personal data we collect and why we collect it Cookies Cookies are text files which contain small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or Internet device when you visit a website. They are then sent back to the original website on each subsequent
- [EDITION PRINTS](https://nikosmarkou.com/edition-prints/) - Edition prints for sale. Nikos Markou photography.
- [Terms & Conditions](https://nikosmarkou.com/terms-conditions/) - Terms & Conditions1. Description of Products 1.1 The colours depicted in paintings or other artworks on this website may not be accurate, due to the nature of both computer operating system colour palettes and computer monitor displays. 1.2 All products are subject to availability. 2. Price and Payment 2.1 The price of the products will
- [LIFE NARRATIVES 2012-2014](https://nikosmarkou.com/life-narratives-2012-2014/) - Life NarrativesLF_01Life NarrativesLF_02Life NarrativesLF_03Life NarrativesLF_04Life NarrativesLF_05Life NarrativesLF_06Life NarrativesLF_07Life NarrativesLF_08Life NarrativesLF_09Life NarrativesLF_10 Life NarrativesNikos Markou places this project at the intersection between discourse and image. It is a contemporary photographic series based on an audiovisual work, which seems to engrave history: the portrait sits still as we listen to each person’s life story, or an extract
- [BIOGRAPHY](https://nikosmarkou.com/biography/) - Born 1959, Athens. Lives and works in Athens. Education 1978 – 1982 Mathematics, University of Athens GR Awards/ Distinctions 1993 1st Prize, Fuji Hellas Competition 3rd Prize, Paneuropean Fuji Competition 1990 1st Prize, Kodak Competition 1987 Distinction, Competition for Young European Photographers 1986 Air France Prize 1984 Distinction, Competition of Press-Photo, Charleroi, Belgium Selected Solo
- [PETROUPOLI 1980](https://nikosmarkou.com/petroupoli/) - PetroupoliThere are two theories regarding the etymology of the word “Petroupoli”. According to the first one, the city was named after the Greek word “petra” (city of stone), as its subsoil is rocky and in the old times several quarries were active in the area. The most prevalent theory, however, supports the view that the
- [PERAMA 1980-1982](https://nikosmarkou.com/perama/) - PeramaPerama is a rocky area in the westernmost tip of Piraeus. Its terrain is sloping, creating steep inclines that in some cases exceed 30%. In ancient years, Perama bore the name Amphiali. It is presumed that Xerxes, the Persian emperor, watched the battle of Salamis (480 BC) sitting on one of the peaks of Mount
- [GASWORKS 1982-1984](https://nikosmarkou.com/gasworks/) - Gas FactoryThe Athenian factory of the French Gas Company was founded in 1857. The bricks, the roof tiles and other building materials, as well as most of the machinery, were shipped from France. At the time of the German occupation in Athens, the Nazis wanted to requisition the gas factory, but changed their mind when
- [GEOMETRIES 1996-1999](https://nikosmarkou.com/geometries/)
- [COSMOS 2000-2003](https://nikosmarkou.com/cosmos/)
- [TOPOS 2000-2015](https://nikosmarkou.com/topos/) - ToposA mountain is turned into a quarry to feed the need to create a city. A cement factory gets built to do the same. Quarry and factory are now part of the fabric of a city mushrooming out of control, swallowing up nature, mangling it and spitting it out. I’ve been photographing Man’s interventions in
- [NATURE MONUMENTS 2011](https://nikosmarkou.com/nature-monuments/) - Nature MonumentsIn “Nature Monuments” a broader natural reality is highlighted which surpasses human agony, but without concealing it. The lens focusing on the earth and on the ants’ movement carrying food to their colony is just a detail. The close observation of the flock of starlings, which shades the sky, reveals all the details of
- [SALAMINA 2013](https://nikosmarkou.com/salamina/)
- [KIFISSOS RIVER 2018](https://nikosmarkou.com/kifissos-river/) - Kifissos RiverSpringing from Penteli and Parnitha mountains, Kifissos is the longest river in Athens and cuts across the capital flowing southwest, up to Phaleron Bay. In Roman times the first aqueduct was constructed along its banks, and in the course of time the river served as a drainage system for rainwater. In the middle of
- [ATHENS 2017](https://nikosmarkou.com/athens-2017/)
- [LINKS](https://nikosmarkou.com/links/) - http://www.adgallery.gr/ http://dimitrismichalakis.com/ http://www.yerolymbos.com/ http://panos-kokkinias.com/ http://www.panayiotislamprou.com/ http://www.petroskoublis.com/ http://www.giorgos-moutafis.com/ http://www.stratoskalafatis.com/ http://www.parispetridis.com/ http://www.pavlosfysakis.com/ http://www.depressionera.gr/ http://www.kostaskapsianis.gr/
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