Un/Taken ep. 6 Katia Peristeraki

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This topic is about the photo you did not take. If you haven’t seen the previous episodes, read those stories here.

For this episode we get to know Katia Peristeraki, a photographer from Greece. She will tell us about her photos, taken and untaken.

Here we go.

Untaken

Which photo was untaken and why did you not take it?

My photos are mostly conceptual, however I do many spontaneous photos as well. One night, I was waiting in my car near a wall by the sea, killing time until picking up my son from his after school club activities. Anyway, my mobile phone camera was ready , just in case something extraordinary would occur. And then, I saw him: a man dressed in total white, from head to toe, walking on the wall. He stepped in front of me, his back to me, took off his hat, and guess: even his hair was white! He stayed there for a while staring the sea and the moon, it seemed to me that he was performing …