About This Project

Miltiadis Igglezos

Ruins of Marib, Yemen

These cyanotypes depict some ruins of Old Marib, a very interesting, historic, small and uninhabited city located in Yemen. I printed the positive photos that I had taken, in order to have an illusion of night shots in the final images. Suddenly, most of the dark window oppenings appear to be falsely illuminated. With a childlike naivety, Ι imagined some little children reading fairytales in rooms lit by candles or oil lamps, while it was getting dark outside. I toned the cyanotypes using black tea without bleaching. So I got these dark blue-black and earthy shades. The general title of the project is “1000 and 1 nights”, which I borrowed from the collection of the ancient Arabic folk tales, as well as from the title of the movie that Pier Paolo Pasolini filmed in some places in Yemen.

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