Sam Youkilis – Somewhere 2017-2023 Chinese photography

Sam Youkilis – Somewhere 2017-2023 Chinese photographyLoose Joints 2023 Sam Youkilis has been building a continuous archive of photographic works through his phone for the last six years. Working instinctively, Youkilis's short, immersive videos gather universal themes of human experience, using the casual language of the cameraphone to evoke something profound, anthropological, comprehensive and yet incomplete. Youkiliss work springs from an attitude, a way of experiencing the world, that contains depth

posed after Lina Wertmuller’s The Night Porter

he has been bearing witness to the grip of the Soviet system on his country

In his out-of-print artist's book "EIN-HEIT"

This gave him the opportunity to portray more than a hundred metalheads

The rice is on the hob

history and myth are at play

Employing a scrapbook aesthetic with handwritten notes

This body of work examines the progression and regression of the struggle to survive and thrive

it also alludes to the personal nature of Ethridge’s work

geopolitical

unlike the work of professional photographers who have been exhibited worldwide

’ And as soon as the streets were filled with placards – ‘babies are for loving