For PIO’s portrait of Cypriot painter Loizos Sergiou, I wanted the image to feel less polished than alive — like paint still wet on the wall, like iron pulled from the sea and given a second, angrier soul. His world is full of bodies, birds, war, love, colour, scrap metal, old symbols, family ghosts, and that rare kind of honesty that does not ask permission before entering the room. As DOP, I tried to follow the pulse of that world without softening it: to hold the frame steady while the work shouted, mourned, laughed, and insisted that art must take a position.The raw reds, the wounded figures, the sea as both cradle and grave, the strange tenderness hiding inside rage. Loizos speaks like he paints — with instinct, contradiction, humor, pain, and a stubborn devotion to truth My sincere thanks to the Director, CJ, for the trust and direction, and to Loizos Sergiou for opening his studio, his stories, and his fierce, generous vision.
Produced by the Press and Information Office, Republic of Cyprus
Director - George Spyris "CJ"
DOP - Costas Drakos
2nd Camera - George Galatis
Sound - Marios Mina
Edit - Pavlos Champartas