Meteora, Northern Greece, 2022

In February 2022 I visited the UNESCO world heritage sight at Meteora, Greece. It was in India in 2019 I first experienced the precariousness and beauty of religous structures built high-up on mountains or hills – to be closer to the heavens. Similarly, in Meteora there are six active monasteries dating back almost a thousand years and built into these rock formations.

The absence of tourists meant the town of Kalambaka was largely quiet if not for the presence of local villagers and tavern owners often with small farms guarded by working dogs. The rocks are dramatic and tower over the village which demonstrated the precariousness between man and nature. These became exaggerated as a low pressure weather front had moved in during my stay and mist had engulfed Meteora. Within hours the mountains were barely visible and the village was blanketed in snow.

Together this created an atmohpshere of isolation and uknown. There were moments were the foreground was barely perceptible. This become more dramatic the higher I climbed upto the Monesteries where I tried to capture man-made structures that support the daily needs of people living here disappearing into large monolothic landscapes.

There were moments of absolute clarity as the sun shone through followed by moments of feeling completely isolated.

Film photographs are taken using a Canon AV-1 and Delta 400 Film.