CAMERA KALAUREIA

Fotis Ifantidis is an archaeologist-museologist, post-doctoral researcher at the University of the Aegean. His research is focused on personal adornment practices in prehistory, on the interplay between photography and archaeology [case-studies: Dispilio, the Athenian Acropolis, the sanctuary of Kalaureia, Koutroulou Magoula] and on the use of images in the archaeological museum landscape.

• What is a photograph? ; Itineraries ; Boundaries ; Traces ; Producers ; Re-collections ; Encounters ; Overwritings ; Dispersals ; Bibliography

‘Camera Kalaureia is a fresh, non-conventional, creative, and highly evocative archaeological photo-ethnography, combining all in one of Hamilakis’ ideological standpoints on archaeology, heritage, and the body, and against colonialism, nationalism and modernism, with Ifantidis’ masterful craft of the lens. Aimed at a broad audience, academic and not, the book does not merely present a visual alternative for ideas and interpretations in archaeology; it is also an artefact and agent, a contributor in the cultural production of the discipline itself. As a potential research tool, it is yet to be seen whether conventional archaeology is ready to take on the challenge.’ – Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (2019): Journal of Greek Archaeology