Tony Maridakis

Astrological Sign

Leo

A Favorite Quote

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm, US (German-born) psychologist (1900 - 1980)

Photographic Influences

Larry Schwarm, Jan Staller, Vincent Laforet, Tom Baril, David Parker, Michael Wolf, Olafur Eliasson, David Hockney, Mark Rothko, Giorgio de Chirico, El Greco, Gerhard Richter

Photographic Education

Post-Baccalaureate, Visual Arts: UC Berkeley Ext., 2010, Awarded with Distinction
Additional training at the San Francisco Art Institute

Current Reading Material

History of Beauty, edited by Umberto Eco

Recent Photographic Project

The Modern Ruins series, which is part of a larger project entitled, Constructs.

Most Interesting Assignment or Previous Occupation?

Working in the Scientific Systems Group at Chiron Corp. as a Project Manager supporting the Vaccines Group in their efforts to produce HIV, Herpes, and Hepatitis C vaccines.

Project Statement

My images present interpretations of the modern world that transport the viewer to an altered sense of place and time, simultaneously foreign and familiar – like places we might visit in a dream or memory. Images from a construction site representing youth, growth and accumulation of knowledge, a modern temple housing our collective myths and legends, projections of reality on decaying structures, act as representations of a way in which we construct, store and remember our existence from cues in the concrete form.