The photographic practice of Irakleous is often influenced by the everyday life and the streets. Through his work, he explores the beauty of the boring, the subtle, the ignored, the unpleasant, the anti-art, the ordinary, and the mundane. This process allows him to go beyond the obvious and reveal the hidden layers of the world around us. His images often explore themes such as human existence, past, repetition, stillness, emptiness, death, and meaning. Through editing, Irakleous changes the atmosphere and tone of each photograph by altering the colors, resulting in new, emotionally charged images. Familiar scenes are transformed into something more reflective or intense. The purpose is not to idealize the everyday, but to highlight its complexity by showing how something that seems obvious can hold many different layers of meaning.
