DIMITRA GOUNARI
2022
Dimitra Gounari is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sound and Image of the Ionian University in Greece. She holds a Master of Arts in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College-University of London U.K., with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation I.K.Y., and is a graduate of the Department of Photography of the Athens University of Applied Sciences, Greece. She has taught at
the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts of the University of West Attica, the Visual Arts course at the IB Diploma and is an IB DP Visual Arts examiner. Her artistic work has received distinctions and awards from several institutions and competitions. She has exhibited in Greece, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom etc and been published in catalogs in the Greek and international press.
Her artistic work can be found in private and public collections.
“Flaming trees”
2017-2021
The present series of photographs attempts to explore and highlight reflective approaches to 'landscape' through the research and experiential practices of the photographic image and its creative digital transformations.
By the term 'landscape' we mean the 'natural space' that surrounds us, which at the same time highlights the cultural characteristics of the environment in which we live.
Exploring the human experience in relation to the natural environment, this series seeks to explore transitional landscapes, familiar and unfamiliar spaces, in order to highlight new readings and processes, through artistic digital practice.
By creating composite digital photographic images, I aim to highlight the changes and transformations that the natural environment undergoes due to the human intervention, such as a fire. The Flaming trees series is dedicated to the fire of the North Evia region in Greece, where I come from. The digital images express the
changes the landscape has undergone, which have completely changed the shape of the island.
