Yannis Karpouzis’ body of work entitled Parallel Crisis welcomes its viewer to a slightly disguised and unclear parallel universe where economy is of least importance and human values are in the foreground. Revisiting the Athenian landscape and rethinking the socio-political situation brought to Greece by the financial crisis of 2010, Karpouzis attempts to provide visual clues hinting at, rather than straightforwardly affirming, the poverty, dejection and emotional numbness affecting citizens laboring to maintain their dignity. Applying slow photography through a variety of shooting techniques, Karpouzis’ documentation of daily urban life has the impact of a bomb ready to explode at times and at others presents itself as a potential antidote to a poisoned lifestyle, advocating a political agenda of rupture within the channels of power.