Effie Paleologou in conversation with Iain Sinclair at The Photographers’ Gallery, London


Join us at The Photographers’ Gallery as we celebrate the launch of Effie Paleologou’s new book, Tales of Estrangement. Paleologou will be in conversation with writer Iain Sinclair, discussing the overarching themes in her collection of nocturnal images of London and Athens. 

This talk is followed by a book signing by Effie Paleologou.

Friday 2 December
18:30 GMT

The Photographers' Gallery
16-18 Ramillies St
London W1F 7LW

Free to attend

About Tales of Estrangement

This collection evokes a mysterious and fragmented cityscape of two places – London and Athens – both of which artist Effie Paleologou has come to regard as almost home. Working nocturnally, when identities become blurred and indeterminate, Paleologou conjures a third fictional staging that she has become all the more attached to. Her images are infused with a sense of the familiar but are equally beholden to the states of uncertainty and vulnerability that arise in alternative realities. Stripped of inhabitants this hybrid city appears silent yet strangely resonant. Paleologou offers a modern mapping of transitory and liminal spaces. She is drawn to train stations, hotels, carparks, seaports and airports, sites in which encounters, departures, disappearances, and endings unfold perpetually. Shadows and artificial light cast across urban geometries reveal phantasmagoric scenes and uncanny moods. If this is home, there is a restless theatre at play too. Alienation and belonging belong together here.

Find out more and order copies here



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