I was  born and raised in Cologne and I am working as a culture editor for a big broadcast service in Germany.  Therefore reading a lot of scripts and scanning many lists with information and news. To compensate for these mainly cerebral pleasures I travel and take pictures.

 

ABOUT THE PROJECTS

Kinesis

is a project about dancers in different parts of the world. Huge cities like Tokyo and Athens – or small towns like Shumen in Bulgaria. Having been a dance critic, I changed my perspective and now follow my passion for photography. I visit dancers, choreographers and companies around the world, capture their rehearsals and daily routines, sometimes accompanying their  path to new pieces. Always trying to find a connection between the strength and fragility of the dancers and my emotions towards the different urban structures they live in.

Safe Space

wants to cover everybody’s need for a psychological or three-dimensional place, where you can be authentic and at ease with yourself. What do you regard as your own private Safe Space? Is it a cafe or your apartment?  Or maybe a relationship or a fantasy?

Abseits vom Strom

is a project inspired by Alec Soth’s photobook  „Sleeping by the Mississippi“. It’s about my relationship to the river Rhine that has accompanied me since my birth in Cologne. I remember dreaming about the river as a child. My journey along the Rhine is an attempt to bring past and present together.

Mono No Aware

Mono No Aware is a central aesthetic concept of Japanese culture. Literally, it means something like „compassion for things“ or „the tender emotion of transience“. It describes the perception that everything is in a flux – and the beauty that lies in impermanence.

 

lf you want to license a photo or request about working with me on a project please contact me:

basil.nikitakis@t-online.de

+49 15161515756
Genter Str. 23
50672 Köln