Dimitris Mytas

“ELEPHANT is a personal photographic exploration of the empty nest syndrome, inspired by my son’s departure for college. His absence created a suffocating sense of emptiness in our home—an unspoken weight that felt like an elephant in the room. In this void, I turned to my archive and rediscovered fragments of our shared past, detached from their original context yet profoundly resonant within this new reality.

Blending past and present through archival and newly created images, the project combines abstract elements with personal visual symbols, unfolding as a meditation on absence, grief, transformation, and redemption. It concludes with an image of my child walking away through a snowy landscape—a poignant symbol of his freedom to explore life and my quiet acceptance of this transition.”