Isola

The series began in 2020, in a period of isolation on Arran during the first UK coronavirus lockdown. The detachment afforded by living through this period lead me to on my own transnational identity as an islander and a photographer.

Resonating with the etymology of the word 'island', Isola is a suite of photographs reflecting on the idea of the island as an existential condition. The images were photographed at the opposite ends of Europe, in the Western Isles of Scotland and the islands of the Northern Aegean, acknowledging the fact that my life has been defined by the journey from my family origins on the Greek island of Chios and the Scottish island of Arran, where I now live. This has lead me since then to find find parallels between islands at the extreme of Europe to the point where, in this work, they merge to become the Island that defines my experience and imagination as a European.