The obvious question after "Bestiarium" was: "where to go next?" Digital imaging was (and still is) like an unexplored continent, with no signposts and few footmarks to follow (photo-journalism and fashion photography were different: even when innovating, my photographs would inevitably be related to those of my predecessors and competitors). The path that most attracted me, and also seemed the most appropriate to the new medium, pointed towards some kind of fiction; and as I had always been fascinated by history and mythology, I found it interesting to use the newest techniques to recreate images of a distant past, just as I had used traditional photography to show the present.

The result was "Chimerae" (the Chimera was a mythological monster, part lion, part goat and part dragon - an assemblage so incongruous, that even Greek artists couldn't agree on how to represent her; by extension, the name is used for any creature made of parts belonging to different species). One thing that fascinated me about this project, was the idea that photography (if this kind of work may still be called so) could illustrate the very same subjects that had been represented by painters, sculptors and poets for the last two thousand years. I spent much time and many efforts on this, photographing landscapes in Greece, animals in circuses and zoos, athletes and nude girls in the studio; then I selected fragments from this material and reassembled them into complex scenes. But I am still unsatisfied with some of the images, and I often consider going back to this project, in search of some side path that I might have overseen.