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Parthenon
Athens, Greece
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Giant Kouros IV
Archaeology Museum, Samos, Greece
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Twentieth Century Inscriptions
Ephesus, Turkey
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Statuary II from Temple of Hera
Arcaeology Museum, Samos, Greece
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Reconstructed Column I, Temple of Hera
Samos, Greece
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Replica Statuary,
Temple of Hera
Samos, Greece
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Skulls of Martyrs of 1822 Massacre
Nea Moni Monastery, Chios, Greece
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Marlene and Mark II
Patmos, Greece
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Eric II
Samos, Greece
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Bernadette in Aegean
Samos, Greece
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View of Aegean II
Ayios Constantinos, Greece
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Emborios Beach
Chios, Greece
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Wine Factory Ruin II
destroyed by a tidal wave in 1930s, Kampos, Samos, Greece
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Phantom Donkey I
wine factory ruin, Kampos, Samos, Greece
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Cypress
Entrance to Nea Moni Monastery, Chios, Greece
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Cypress
Courtyard of Nea Moni Monastery, Chios, Greece
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The images from "Millennia, Images from Greece and Turkey" were made in the summer of 1998. In making these images, I attempted to not only record the grandeur of these ancient lands, but to produce new portraits in which the past, the present and the future seem to be one and in which water, air, earth and light surround these ancient places.
For this series, I used a Finney pinhole camera, a commercial handmade camera which is no longer being manufactured. The camera has a bellows that extends from 1-1/2" to 8" and a revolving turret with 4 pinholes, 3 zone plates, and a viewing pinhole for viewing the image on the ground glass. I often used the viewing pinhole to create a very out of focus image, a zone plate at the "wrong" focal length, or a pinhole at the "wrong" focal length. During film development, I soaked the film in fixer prior to development. Luck played an important part in this process of altering the negative.
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All images © Nancy Spencer
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