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A man is imprisoned without knowing why. Where is he ? For how long ? Using images from abandoned detention centres for migrants in Greece and a reconstruction of a story , Blue Sky from Pain submerges us in a suffocating atmosphere, erased, in ruins…

Stephanos Mangriotis is a freelance visual artist, living and working in Marseille. He was born in Athens and first studied Maths and Philosophy in Bristol before studying photography in Paris. In his projects, he uses photography, film and multimedia forms to create stories about immigration, borders and marginality. Besides his personal work, he also coordinates a photography workshop with people that suffer from mental illnesses with the association Dekadrage, based in Marseille. In the last years he has collaborated with social scientists in order to create cross disciplinary projects in the form of multimedia pieces and short films.