Dimitrios Karapiperis is a 25years old freelance and recently published photographer coming from Greece and located in Ioannina for the last 6 years. He was born in Thessaloniki and at the age of 19years old, after finishing his mandatory service in the Greek army, started studying at Plastic arts and science of arts at Fine Art School of Ioannina. He’s been working at photography for 5 years and the last 2 years his main projects are qualified to portrait and nude art with more than 15 publications and 17 distinctions in photography contests. The most recent and favourite project of his is on theme: Women abuse through their commercialisation

The abuse of women through their commercialisation

My work deals with situations and events that occur in our daily lives. Because violence is part of our daily lives, unfortunately, part of our culture.

However, the terrible news that reaches the media is not far from each of us as much as we think.

The subject of my dissertation entitled "The abuse of women through their commercialisation" directly addresses the issue of women who are projected daily as a product - as well as the position or image of women in today's patriarchal society.

The women in my photos are without identity because it is not their social identity that unites them, but the events, experiences and feelings they have experienced. With scarves, thus hiding the basic features of the models' faces, but not out of shame, but in order for everyone to take the place of the victim. It could be you or your daughter or your sister. And that's exactly where the problem is for me. "Why care only if it is a familiar and beloved person?"

My goal, through my photos, is for the viewer to read the despair, the sadness, the boredom, the collapse of all our values.

As one of my professors once said, “the real questions of the Art of Photography are philosophical. The real and its representations, the subject and the object, time, death… ".

What excites me about photography is its ability to capture reality without it being delimited and controlled by non-existent taboos, unwritten beliefs and of course the very social mechanism of construction of reality.

So I come to the conclusion that people usually prefer the elliptical conveyance of certain messages or situations to the immediate, realistic description.

My work draws its influences from everyday experiences, but also from the other arts (music, cinema, theatre, poetry) and of course from people's lives.

The intensity that is reflected in my works aims to create in the viewer corresponding intensities of thoughts and feelings that through a special process, to mobilize at the same time his physical, mental and mental sensitivity. Any tension presupposes turmoil and not calm.

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As a young artist I have been influenced by many artistic currents and artists. I have seen myself and the works attracted by elements that appear in the movement of Surrealism and Radiationism. Certainly in my course there have been artists who not only like and admire me but who have defined me. Some of them are Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Chris Burden.

This series of photos is my way of expressing my opinion about the "product woman" that this society is trying to advertise to us. Various institutions and bodies of our societies try to promote the specific idea of woman as something normal, as something natural and I see that they have succeeded.