DIMITRIS TALIANIS was born
in 1948 at Methymna on Levsos. For years now he has been
travelling the length and breadth of Greece, photographing
the beauties of the country.
In 1986, he founded Topio Publications,
whose orientation is towards depicting the soul of Greece,
the beauty and the poetry to be found in its landscape.
His first album of photographs, accompanied by poems by
Odysseas Elytis, was published in Athens in 1987 under the
title Orientations in the Aegean.
Three years later, the next
album - Rust and Brine - was presented at the Museum
of Cycladic Art. An audio-visual presentation of these photographs
- with poems by George Seferis and music by Eleni Karaindou
- appeared at the Herod Atticus Theatre in Athens, the ancient
Odeum of Patra, and the State Theatre of Northern Greece.
In 1990, a photographic tour
of the Meteora monasteries entitled The Third Day
was presented at the Byzantine Museum in Athens and published
as a book with the co-operation of set designer Vasilis
Fotopoulos. The Third Day also became an audio-visual performance,
with music by Stamatis Spanoudakis; it was presented in
1990 at the Meteora in honour of Patriarch Demetrios I,
and shortly afterwards at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
in New York.
An album entitled The Land
of Macedonia was published in 1992 (with texts by Panos
Theodoridis) and presented as an audio-visual performance
at the Demetria Festival in Thessaloniki in October of that
year.
Co-operation with the Municipality
of Corfu in 1993 yielded the album Corfu, Ionian Light,
published to mark the European Union summit meeting held
on the island in 1994.
In 1994, Dimitris Talianis
co-operated with the journalist Kostas Serezis on an album
of photographs entitled In Cyprus. This itinerary
in free Cyprus was launched at the National and Historical
Museum in Athens in November 1994.
In September 1995, Dimitris
Talianis and the Holy Monastery of St John the Divine, Patmos,
published a commemorative album entitled Patmos on
the occasion of the celebrations to mark the one thousand
nine hundredth anniversary of the composition of the Revelation
of St John.
The photographs of Dimitris
Talianis have been exhibited at the Geni €ami, Mytilene,
the Institut Francais, Volos, the Institut Francais, Corfu,
Galerie 3 and the Flocart Gallery, Athens, the Janus Gallery,
Thessaloniki, the Argo Gallery, Nicosia (Cyprus) and the
Hellenic Institute, Boston.
His audio-visual performances
have been presented at universities, learned institutions
and arts centres in Greece and many other countries, while
slides by Dimitris Talianis have been shown during the course
of more than 200 academic conferences and as part of the
Penteli and Corfu Festivals.
The entire oeuvre of Dimitris
Talianis was presented in 1991 at Hancock Hall, Boston (by
the Greek Consulate in Boston and the George Seferis Chair
of Harvard University) and in March 1995 it was presented
at the Octagon Theatre of the University of Western Australia,
Perth.
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