
© Danae Charalabidou - “Silence in Liquid Light” - selected as Foto of the Day - January 2026
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Mama & Mio Part of a documentary series on generations and the power of womanhood. Care is the quiet infrastructure of a family: carried in hands, bodies, routines, time. The image traces a natural cycle, not as metaphor, but as fact: we come from one another, we are raised by one another, we become one another.
Storing flowers. This is part of my project Jasmine. Jasmine is a personal photographic journey into the memory and legacy of the women in my family. Through my family archive, I try to understand how experiences, wounds, and tenderness are passed down from generation to generation; from grandmother to mother to daughter. Jasmine is, for me, a way to come closer to the women who came before me, to acknowledge what they left within me, and to find my own place within this ongoing lineage.
This capture is part of a project called " La danse des Lumières" I decided to use light-painting as my main technique to portray my subjects. I love the mystery that light-painting creates, a subtle play between the concealed and the discretely revealed allowing the magic of light to filter deeply into the soul of emotions.
“Silence in Liquid Light” 3:4 From the Project “We Live In The Oblivion Of Our Transformations”
Project: Body Soul Photo: Women power Concept: series about perceiving the human body beyond stereotypes and visual clichés. It explores the boundary between the physical and the inner — between how a person appears and what they experience. In today’s visual culture, the body is often viewed as an object of observation and judgment. This project challenges that perception, proposing to see corporeality as an independent state — one that does not need to prove or hide, but simply to exist.
A Study of Masculine Grace” This work is a quiet conversation with self — a reminder that strength doesn’t always come with weight or noise. Sometimes it’s just the steady rhythm of showing up as you are. These images capture the parts of masculinity we don’t talk about enough: the softness beneath the muscle, the calm behind the posture, the small peace that comes when you stop trying to be what the world expects.
In Bloom, A Last Dance Before The Silence. Where an ending flares like a beginning, held between presence and disappearance, in a final surge of being.
Grafarkirkja is the oldest turf church in Iceland, built in 1240 and today a guardian of the country's history. While I was taking this photograph, I was lucky to have the church’s pastor arriving behind me—a very kind lady who offered to show me the inside of the church, which is normally closed to the public except during ceremonies.
This work explores how identity and emotion can be conveyed without the visible face, shifting the portrait from recognition to presence through body, gesture, texture, and light. The subject is a queer man living in the closet; the turned back becomes both protection and agency, while silhouette, shadow, and adornment carry what cannot yet be shown—vulnerability, restraint, and inner strength.