Playing the long game

Working as a professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the chemistry department of the University of Patras in Greece, Vassilis Tangoulis is rather fond of experiments. Around 15 years ago he developed a passion for black & white photography, and started playing around with long exposures to add a fourth dimension, time, to his work. Vassilis was born in the Greek town of Karpenisi, surrounded by pine-clad mountains and wide, busy rivers. He left the settlement at the age of 11, but what he experienced in those formative years helped to shape his understanding of the natural world. For more than two decades