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Behind the well-known media figure, Nikos Aliagas is a French photographer of Greek origin, born in Paris in 1969. As a dreamy child, raised between two cultures, he observed the world and recorded thousands of interior snapshots. In the 1970s, his father gave him a small camera, and he discovered the power of this box, capable of fixing what would otherwise be doomed to oblivion. Over the years, he began to reflect on the temporality and memory of the image. In his photographic manifesto, L'Épreuve du temps, he explores what resists time, from the columns of a temple, to the hands of a sculptor, to the worn faces of the ancients. As a teenager, he explored the olive groves of Missolonghi and Stamna in Greece, the land of his ancestors. These landscapes became a space for dialogue and meditation. The olive tree, a tree of peace and transmission, imposes itself as a founding presence in his quest. Behind his lens, Nikos Aliagas searches for that which bears witness and stands the test of time. His work in black and white focuses on the traces left on bodies, faces, hands and nature, in an approach attentive to silences, inherited from a humanist tradition. In Le Spleen d'Ulysse, he continues this reflection on return, the ephemeral and man's place in the long term. Exhibited and published in France and abroad (L'Esprit grec, Thalassa, Peuples de la mer, Regards vénitiens, Corps et âmes and, more recently, Les Grands Âges at the Musée de l'Homme), his works find an emblematic expression in Danse millénaire, where two entwined olive trees seem to rise together, carried by an ancient breath. The image evokes the persistence of life and the fragile continuity of a civilization rooted as much in the earth as in people's minds.
Timbre-poste (héliogravure), document philatélique : mise en page Emmanuel Vedrenne d'après photos © Nikos Aliagas. Cachet d'oblitération : mise en page Emmanuel Vedrenne d'après logo © Nikos Aliagas. Texte : N.K. Philaposte /21 26 553 / © La Poste 2026
Commercialisation start date
June 15, 2026
Commercialisation end date
June 30, 2028
Adherence type
None
Printing technique
Offset
Number per sheet
1
Permanent value
Face value
-
Philatelic charter family
Philatelic program stamp
Official release date
June 15, 2026
Stamp format
210 x 297 mm
author
Nikos ALIAGAS
Product number
2126553
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