This project explores how our identity is shaped over time and through the places we have lived. Through archival analog footage from childhood, a dual narrative unfolds: on one hand, the place we come from, and on the other, the place we choose—or the one that ultimately chooses us.

These are not just images, but moments filled with emotion, memory, and lived experience. It is an attempt to understand how these two parts coexist within us, how they influence us, and how together they shape who we are today.

Skyros becomes a place of memory—a space of first experiences, where both body and emotion encounter the world for the first time. These images are not simply records, but carriers of an innocence and a sense of familiarity that cannot be recreated.

In contrast, Edessa appears as a place of transition and redefinition. There, identity is not fixed but constantly forming. The camera does not only capture the landscape, but also the act of discovering it—the effort to take root in a place that initially feels unfamiliar.

The work moves between two times and two places, not to oppose them, but to reveal the dialogue between them. Memory and experience coexist, creating an in-between space where the sense of belonging remains fluid.

Ultimately, the question “Where are you from?” does not seek a single answer, but reveals an ongoing process: the continuous shaping of the self through what we carry and what we choose to become.