Stories from underwater meadows
From 19 to 25 July 2025, at the Patmos Cultural Centre, the photography exhibition of Elias Cosindas, entitled “Stories from underwater meadows” will be presented.
Elias Cosindas was born in Athens in 1968 and studied photography at the Focus School. Since 1990 he has been working as a professional photographer. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, and has been published in publications and magazines covering the contemporary photographic landscape. Alongside his artistic career, he has worked on major cultural and commercial projects – including the opening ceremony of the Acropolis Museum, the 2004 Athens Olympics and productions for major companies such as DHL, Estée Lauder and Kärcher.
This exhibition focuses on the photographer’s relationship with the element of water. Cosindas photographs “inside” the liquid element, with his body submerged and the camera observing from the inside out. Water functions not only as a subject, but as a participatory field: the works record moments of tension, calm, but also presence – often through the very absence of the person or the traces they have left behind.
His images do not simply attempt to record the seabed, but to activate it through a participatory act. Through his aesthetic approach, the photographer engages in a conversation with issues concerning the environment and the alteration of the natural landscape, not in an accusatory manner, but through the visual act itself. The sea becomes a scene, a body and at the same time a memory – a perpetual movement captured in moments of absolute silence.
The exhibition “Stories from the meadows of the sea bed” is a poetic and at the same time contemplative commentary on nature, loss and observation. Through Cosinda’s lens, the underwater landscape takes on a voice – a quiet but insistent voice that invites us to look again at the aquatic environment not only as a spectacle, but as an experience.
