Parthena Manoussakis

I move through cities as both witness and participant, using film photography to study the quiet language of faces. Portraiture, to me, is less about documentation and more about preservation of mood, time, and the subtle negotiations people make with the world around them. Working across different countries and cultures has reinforced a shared interiority that transcends geography. My practice is an ongoing attempt to honour that universality, while respecting the specificity of each individual I photograph.
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Email tinamanoussakis@gmail.com
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Lorem Ipsum
Anglicus
2003Publication

ISBN: 0-7449-4575-5
216 x 254 mm
140 pp. Hardcover

This collection moves through New York in summer, when the city loosens its grip just enough to let people show themselves. Nothing is staged. Intimacy happens in passing. To get lost here isn’t collapse, it’s calibration. You walk without explanation, sometimes alone but never isolated, carried by the momentum of other lives playing out beside yours. Power comes from that anonymity, the freedom to be unfinished, to be desirous, to be entirely yourself without performance. New York doesn’t romanticise you, it sharpens you. These brief and physical moments are what make the city seductive, give it its charge and hold us inside it.

Parthena Manoussakis Diary