October 24, 2026
by Three Paths: Constantine Manos, Nikos Economopoulos, Enri Canaj
July 11, 2026 – November 15, 2026
MOMus abroad
MUSEO TZORTZI (former Municipal Gallery, 10, 28th October Pedestrian Street, Agios Nikolaos, PC 72100, Crete, Greece)
The exhibition “Three Paths: Constantine Manos, Nikos Economopoulos, Enri Canaj” presented in MUSEO TZORTZI in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, co-organised by MOMUS-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Benaki Museum, GREEN PROJECT, Region of Crete and Municipality of Agios Nikolaos, under the Auspices of the Embassy of Albania in Greece, from 11 July until 15 November 2026, is an original proposal as well as a tribute. With street photography as its backbone, a dominant artistic trend of the photographic medium in the second half of the 20th century, it bridges three generations of artists with common point of reference their relationship with Greece and their membership in the famous Magnum Photos agency, which has written since its foundation in 1947 and until today, to a large degree, modern world’s history in images.
Greek-American Constantine Manos walks around the country in the sixties as a contemporary Ulysses, looking to heal the latent wound of migration. Nikos Economopoulos crosses Greece and the Balkans in the last two decades of the 20th century focusing mainly in fragile minorities and turbulent communities. Greek-Albanian Enri Canaj, respectively, visits in the second decade of the 21st century a homeland he never got to know properly, imprinted though deeply in the memories of his childhood and dwelling still in the everyday family stories.
The expressiveness of the snapshot, the dedication on the everyday, underprivileged man, the Balkan place as a womb of common experiences and wounds, the occasionally melancholic austereness of the black and white tones in a contemporary world dressed now with vivid, saturated colors, act as common elements of the three artistic generations, that maintained among them a relationship of support and/or apprenticeship. Walking through the exhibition one may also spontaneously trace the historical, aesthetic and social relevance in the work of the three photographers, as they distill from the world the substance of life and photography.
The works of Constantine Manos and Nikos Economopoulos belong to the collection of the Benaki Museum Photographic Archives, Athens.
Curated by: Hercules Papaioannou, Curator of MOMUS-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
saloniki Documentary Festival.
Consult this link for further information: https://www.momus.gr/en/exhibitions/treis-dromoi-constantine-manos-nikos-economopoulos-enri-canaj-0
