Athens-based artist and poet Georgia Ponirakou uses expired film and small 35mm cameras to explore the intimacy of daily life and the fragile relationship with her own body. Struggling with mental illness, her self-portraits emerge from moments of pain and disconnection — an attempt to find softness where it hurts most. Through her lens, healing becomes an act of tenderness — a quiet rebellion against shame, a love letter to survival.
There are times that I can’t stand my own skin, but these selfportraits eventually become a reminder that my body is beautiful because it is mine and that I have to treat it with tenderness and love.
