My work explores our symbiotic relationship with the urban environment by looking at how it affects us and, in turn, how we attempt to effect change. By moving through the city and using photography as a record of that movement, I want to question how space is constructed and how we inject ourselves into that space, either physically, or through images and mark-making.
I aim to investigate and compare how we influence urban spaces, and analyze the relationship between documentary photography and public imagery. By drawing on my own understanding of the city and my use of photography as a means of study, I hope to make larger connections between society’s experience of the evolving urban landscape and its efforts to create a more personal expression of community within that environment.
Dimitra Ermeidou is participating in the exhibition Places of memory - Fields of Vision as a member of the art project Visual March to Prespes. The show is part of the main program of the Festival of the Invisible Cities, organized by the State Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA), Thessaloniki, Greece.
In a time in my life where little is steady, my experience of nature is eternal and unwavering. The places I go to make my photographs are preserved land. These places remain intact, short of the ebb and flow of all things in the natural world. It’s important for me to preserve memories and images of the things that are stable. Nature has always played a large role in my ability to find comfort and solace.
Being in nature brings about spirituality, allowing me to be enveloped by the wonder of the natural world and to capture that essence. While experiencing these spaces I move slowly, exploring and making photographs. These photographs are made as a reminder of the grandeur of the nature and to invite the viewer to explore these places, or places like them, for themselves.
