Palamas Reframed is a photographic series by Violetta Lorentzou, constructed from documentation of flooded homes in Palamas, Greece, after Storm Daniel in September 2023. The storm submerged the town and much of the Thessaly region, resulting in Greece’s most costly recorded environmental disaster. When the water receded, domestic interiors were abruptly displaced into public space: mattresses, cupboards, children’s desks, appliances, and personal photographs lay exposed in the streets. These involuntarily revealed fragments form the basis of the work.

Lorentzou photographs these materials on site and digitally reconstructs them into composite architectural images. Each collage is assembled from real elements and organised through a controlled spatial logic that maintains architectural realism while preserving structural breaks, inconsistencies, and evidence of damage.

In Palamas Reframed, the act of collage functions as a structural critique. By reorganising domestic fragments as if playing in a dollhouse, Lorentzou exposes the tension between control and vulnerability embedded in post-disaster environments. This method mirrors the superficial reconstruction efforts often directed toward lower-income and rural communities, where repair is approached through cosmetic gestures rather than systemic solutions. The playful assembly of mismatched elements highlights the gap between institutional responses and lived reality, revealing how those most affected by environmental collapse are frequently the least adequately supported. Through this controlled reordering, the work positions domestic space as a site where social inequality and infrastructural failure become unmistakably visible.