Soil is a photobook by Greek-Japanese photographer Margarita Yoko Nikitaki. The images attempt a visual exploration of Athens’s surface, as she wonders: “How do the materials of the city shape, and how are they shaped by, the needs, the expectations, the demands, and the attachments to “the fantasy of the good life” as Lauren Berlant writes in “Cruel Optimism”, while, at the same time, the non-human life and the geomorphology of land are being disregarded? Are there any possibilities for deconstructing the anthropocentrism of the cities? How does the metropolitan experience emerge as visual and affective noise, sometimes familiar and soothing, and at other times fraught with anxiety and exhaustion? -Publisher

Self published, in collaboration with Zoetrope.