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Benaki Museum

PHOTO EXHIBITION "A WORLD UNITED" - NOVEMBER 21, 2006

Photo exhibition of Yannis Psilakis, who since 1997 had been capturing folk and travel subjects with his camera, focusing mainly on isolated places on the planet and the study of the last indigenous tribes. He traveled and lived with the Mentawai tribes on the island of Siberut in the Indian Ocean, with Huli tribe in the hills of Papua New Guinea, the Kalash in the Karakoram mountain ranges, the Hunzakut in the Hindu Kush and the Mapuche and Aymara Indian tribes in the Amazon basin and the Andes in South America.

This exhibition, was a summary of his work in 65 photographs, organised into three separate groups: faces, people, landscapes. His photographs always focus on humans; they are highly expressive and convey a rich internal life, and spirituality.