Students interviews - Vivi Andreadou "Flow of Life" - Interview with Ypatia Kornarou - Moments Collective

Author Ypatia Kornarou

What is reflected in your photographic work “Flow of Life”?

The photographic project “Flow of Life” captures the search for balance between the “self” and the “we.” Relationships resemble a continuous dance in which emotional connection and distance constantly alternate.

At times, the union becomes deep, generating a sense of security and fulfillment. At other moments, distance grows, bringing with it uncertainty and insecurity. Yet even distance, as painful as it may be, can become a valuable space for self-awareness and redefinition.

At their core, relationships are a continuous balance between connection and independence, between union and personal growth. This constant alternation is what keeps them alive, giving them rhythm, depth, and meaning over time.

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Since we are talking about relationships, what is your relationship with photography? How did it start, and how do you connect with it?

I have always loved photography; I was deeply moved by the power of an image to stop time. I began engaging with it more seriously over the last decade, initially as a way to preserve moments from my travels.

Along the way, however, my need for expression became deeper. I experimented with many genres: portraiture, fine art nude, street photography, self-portraiture, and even underwater photography.

Each form had its own interest and its own truth. This constant search eventually led me to conceptual photography , the challenge of transforming an idea into an image. In this journey, my imagination found a valuable collaborator in Adobe Photoshop, not simply as an editing tool, but as a space of creative freedom.

The camera allows me to record reality while also experimenting with it. Photoshop, on the other hand, gives me the possibility to renegotiate that reality to alter it, transform it, and guide the photograph closer to the emotion I want to express. In this way, photography ceases to be a simple act of documentation and becomes an inner dialogue.

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What do you wish to narrate through your visual storytelling? Have you realized your photographic identity?

Through my visual storytelling, I am mainly concerned with human relationships, loneliness, vulnerability, transformation, strength, and the human need for connection. My photography is deeply human-centered. I am interested in creating images that function like mirrors, where the viewer can recognize parts of themselves.

I am guided more by an inner compass than by a fixed definition. Identity is something that characterizes you, but exploration is what keeps you alive. What excites me today may already be something I move beyond tomorrow, and this constant movement is, for me, a creative necessity.

I experiment with both digital and analog media, continuously searching for new ways of expression. I feel that I still have much to discover within myself and in the world around me. The journey toward my photographic identity is not a destination; it is an open path of exploration.

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We live in a reality shaped by the phenomenon of image consumerism. How do you think artistic photography manages to overcome such a powerful trend in order to defend its significance?

We live in an era of information overload, where images are consumed and forgotten at the same speed. Artistic photography, however, is not created simply to impress it is created to move people.

I believe that an image that carries genuine meaning, one that holds an inner message, has the power to touch, awaken, and create connection. People long for truth and depth. We are constantly flooded with beautiful yet often superficial or constructed images, but what we truly need is simplicity and emotion.

Less information and more feeling. Less noise and more substance. That, I believe, is where the true power of art lies.

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I know that you also love the art of singing. Do the two arts share common elements? And if so, have you been influenced by their interaction?

I am deeply involved with music I play the guitar and sing. For me, the two arts communicate with each other on a profound level, because in both of them rhythm and emotion are essential. In music, rhythm is the heart of a piece. In photography, rhythm is hidden in the composition, in the light, in the contrasts, and in the balances within the frame.

Just as a song can move you, an image can also speak directly to the soul. My involvement with music has taught me to listen not only to sounds but also to silences. This sense of pause, anticipation, and climax also finds its way into my photographs.

All forms of art arise from the same need: the need to express and to share. Creation is not a closed, individual process it is an opening. It is communication.

I believe that every form of art gives something back to us from the magic that everyday life often takes away. It allows us to see the world again with a more childlike gaze more open, more vulnerable. And that magic, whether expressed through a melody or an image, is something I feel is deeply necessary.

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In several of your photographs you include self-portraits. What really happens when someone photographs themselves? Is it conscious and clear to you?

For me, self-portraiture is a means of exploration and experimentation. It is a path toward self-awareness. My own self is the most immediately available “material” I have always present, always ready to transform through an idea, an emotion, or a role.

I do not create self-portraits in order to expose myself, but to narrate. To express things that perhaps cannot be spoken through words. Through this process, I first connect with myself and then with others.

The personal becomes a tool for storytelling. And when an image is sincere, it ceases to be only about me. It opens a space where the viewer can recognize something of themselves, encountering their own thoughts and emotions within it.

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