As an artist from Greece, I carry with me the textures and rhythms of my own coastal heritage — the sounds of nets being repaired, the salt on skin, the taste of fish passed from one generation to the next.

In traveling to Lofoten, I found echoes of this memory in a different light: colder winds, northern landscapes, but the same hands — weathered, skillful, and deeply rooted in sea- bound life.

This project is a dialogue between two fishing worlds. Between the Mediterranean and the Arctic, I explore how food, labor, and tradition shape cultural identity. In both places, fishermen are more than workers — they are carriers of memory, stewards of inherited knowledge.

Through photography, I trace these shared gestures — the cleaning, the mending, the waiting. I see these coastal communities not as nostalgic images, but as living, evolving archives.

This work is my attempt to honor those roots and those I encounter — to build a bridge between the Greek fishing villages I know and the Lofoten shores I have come tounderstand.

As an artist and working daily in the fish & chips food truck in Hamnoya, I see first-hand the tension between tradition and industry, between authentic food culture and mass production. Our mission is simple but vital: to support local fishermen, buy directly from small-scale producers, and keep alive this heritage.

Through my artistic work, I aim to document, reflect, and celebrate this disappearing knowledge — the people who fish with care, the hands that carry memory, and the food that connects us to place.