I love the playful way in which this work wears on our perception and our visual associations with our histories. I’m still waiting for Antonis to publish this book in a longer run.

He says: The Book of Fantastic Antiquities is a catalogue of fictitious objects created by appropriating and collaging archival images of artifacts. The book suggests a classification scheme that contradicts its own nature: objects are fitted into imaginary classes by intuition and appearances, rather than by reason and historical fact.

Photographs can provide historical evidence – but they can also produce illusions.

Antonis Theodoridis is a photographer from and living in Athens, Greece. See more of Antonis’ work at: antonistheodoridis.com