Wassilios Nikitakis

Autor: Wassilios Nikitakis

I am a journalist, living in Cologne, Germany. I've been interested in photography from the days, my father brought home the Time-Life photography books with all their grandeur of war, decay and beauty. And I loved the smell of the photo developer and fixer when I tried to imitate the pictures I'd seen there before. Not to mention my all-time preference for films with strong visual impact, which interested me much more than films with a strong story. What a bliss, when both components came together, as in "Blade Runner", to name just one.

We wanted some sun, at that time, it was in the 90’s. We wanted to move away from that wet and cold winter in Germany. When we arrived in Marbella, it was … wet and cold. And the city itself: a weird spectacle of greed driven construction sins. The gold glittering boast of the german, […]