Agios Ioannis Rentis is a suburb of Piraeus. It is divided into a residential area, which occupies a small part of the ground, and the industrial area, which is occupied by powerful Greek companies. The tall walls are the distinct boundaries between the two regions.A few steps away, the unspoiled vegetation has the role of the dead zone. During the weekdays, the industrial site is characterized by the intense mobility of human resources, machinery and therefore noise pollution. In the Golden Peak series, Lois photographed on the weekends.

Ilias Lois (born 1994 in Greece; lives and works in Athens) is an artist working primarily with colour photography. He studied at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, Athens University of West Attica and at Accademia di belle Arti de Venezia. His work has been presented in international festivals and institutions, including the Benaki Museum, Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and Klompching Gallery of NY. He is curating the Unfold and he is co-editing the contemporary photography magazines Velvet Eyes and Aldebaran. Since 2018, he has been running the Department of Photography | IEK Omiros of Athens. He has been awarded the Lensculture’s Emerging Talent Award 2018. In 2019, he published his first photobook Golden Peak.

30 color photographs
36 pages | 55gsm newsprint
34x50cm (closed) 68x50cm (opened)
Self-published, Athens 2019

Edition of 80