ELIAS YANNAS TSIGOUNIS
Cluster Photography & Print Exhibitor | 2025
ELEGOS
Elias Yannas Tsigounis is a Greek photographer based in London, where he has lived for the past decade, working in healthcare while developing his artistic practice. His photography has been exhibited in several galleries and art spaces in Athens and London, including the notable King's Portraits and Elegos series.
Shot between July and December 2020, King's Portraits formed a valuable historical archive of 800 images capturing nurses, midwives, and assistants who served at King’s College Hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic. Together, this vast collection of headshots highlights the diversity, resilience, and compassion of these frontline workers, who came together under immense pressure to make a difference.
ELEGOS
ELEGOS
Elegos (2022–2023) takes a far more experimental approach. Working with 6x9 negatives shot in the UK and Greece, Elias created five intricate images through a detailed process of slicing, manipulation, and chemical treatments. The resulting photomontages are piercing and complex, illuminating themes of transformation and profound connection.
Elias is currently in the research stage of his next project. As yet untitled, it will further explore the themes and techniques developed in Elegos, with a focus on new ways of visualising and conveying the human experience.
ELEGOS
“Colours bleed, forms distort, and memories collide in Elegos, an experimental photographic series exploring the enduring human effort to find coherence and meaning in transformative experiences that fracture or profoundly alter our lives.
Named after the ancient Greek word for a song or poem of mourning, the series was originally inspired by my journey through the emotional landscapes of loss following the death of my father. Over time, however, the project took on a more universal framing, responding instinctively to the methodology and broadening into themes of metanoia and meaningful connection.
In one sense, the five images of Elegos could be considered dreamscapes, yet they remain deeply rooted in the physicality of the technique. Using a visual language influenced by Pictorialist and Modernist experimental approaches, the images were created from 6x9 negatives shot in the UK and Greece, subjected to a meticulous process of deconstruction involving slicing, manipulation, and chemical treatments.
From the remnants, new configurations emerged through a careful process of photomontage, emphasising depth, colour, and texture to visualise the arc of internal transformation and the unexpected circuitry of unification.”