{"id":2021,"date":"2017-09-12T15:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/09\/12\/alone-together-aristotle-roufanis-photographic-portrayal-of-global-cities\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:46:47","slug":"alone-together-aristotle-roufanis-photographic-portrayal-of-global-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/09\/12\/alone-together-aristotle-roufanis-photographic-portrayal-of-global-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone Together: Aristotle Roufanis’ Photographic Portrayal of Global Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alone Together: Aristotle Roufanis’ Photographic Portrayal of Global Cities<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alone Together:\u00a0A deep look at the loneliness of\u00a0global cities as it appears during the blue hour<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you live or have ever lived in a large, global metropole you can certainly relate to London-based photographer Aristotle Roufanis’<\/a> project\u00a0‘Alone Together’<\/a> which takes a unique\u00a0approach in capturing the loneliness that festers in a global city. An\u00a0ongoing photographic project, Roufanis takes\u00a0this phenomenon of social alienation in urban centres as a starting point, and adds a positive, optimistic twist to it.\u00a0Photos are captured in\u00a0a way that only tiny, individual apartment lights are visible in some of our favorite cities in the world including London, Paris, Miami and Athens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Hardly recognisable in the dark, some of the world\u2019s most famous metropoles are transformed into sprawling canvases of anonymity, where countless people have decided to make their home but hardly connect to each other.”<\/q><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe bigger the city, the lonelier we feel,”\u00a0comments Aristotle Roufanis, who recently moved to London from another bustling urban centre, namely his hometown of Athens, Greece. \u201cIn a big city, we are very efficient in covering all our consumerist needs, but we forget our need for companionship. It is important for people to understand that although lonely, they are not alone. Individuality does not equal to alienation.\u201d Roufanis does an amazing job of drawing a parallel between the singular lights in an apartment window to an individual stuck in a dark void of a detached world.\u00a0Photos are taken in between the hours of dusk and dawn, shifting the spotlight from public to private which enables the eye to focus on only the singular lights in a building rather than iconic landmarks like the Eiffel Tower.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roufanis uses\u00a0a technique of super high-resolution photography\u00a0complemented by digital editing that can take up to ONE MONTH for each photo. Presented in\u00a0exhibition context, images are showcased\u00a0in\u00a0extremely high-resolution prints to highlight as much detail as possible to the naked eye. The\u00a0resolution of the images is so high that you can delight your inner voyeur by spying on individuals\u00a0standing in the windows\u00a0contemplating the city outside or doing everyday things in their home.<\/p>\n

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ABOUT ARISTOTLE ROUFANIS<\/p>\n

Aristotle Roufanis\u00a0is a London-based art photographer whose work focuses on patterns, textures and human interactions defined by the condition of urban architecture. An active photographer since his early 20\u2019s, Aristotle Roufanis is a self-taught artist, who has mastered his medium through several personal photographic projects. In 2016 he has participated in Scope Art Fair – Miami Beach and with a solo show in Fotofever – Paris; in the same year, his work exhibited at the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts sold out before the show\u2019s public opening. In 2017 he exhibited at Scope in Basel during Art Basel 2017 and he is scheduled to exhibit at the prestigious Zona Maco in Mexico City as well as other art events\u00a0throughout the world.\u00a0Aristotle Roufanis\u2019 work is part of esteemed private collections in London, Paris, Milan, Miami, New York and Mexico City.<\/p>\n

Roufanis is a civil engineering graduate and has always been\u00a0fascinated by architecture, and particularly the patterns and sheer scale of large cities. Interested in the many contrasts and the amount of information one can collect through reading an urban landscape, the artist has often turned his lens to urban architecture in the past. Alone Together combines several themes that have appeared in Aristotle Roufanis\u2019s work so far, but merges them in a very skillful and refined way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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