PHOTOGRAPHY

Reflecting on Athens’ ‘unfinished’ buildings
CULTURE

The concrete frames of buildings punctuating the urban landscape of Athens is the focus of a year of research by artist and director Maria Lalou and the Danish architect Skafte Aymo-Boot that culminated in the Greek/English book “Unfinished” (Jap Sam Books). 


Moments of Color | Athens | March 15-27
WHAT'S ON

Blank Wall Gallery (55 Fokionos Negri, blankwallgallery.com) presents a group photography exhibition “Moments of Color,” curated by Markos Dolopikos.

Greek capital’s oldest ‘new’ district
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The Church of Agios Nikolaos and the residential area of Neapoli in Athens in 1918. With rare photographic material and contemporary artistic creations, a major exhibition of the Hellenic American Union which opens on Tuesday evening seeks to reintroduce Neapoli.

Tehom | Athens | February 15 – May 19
WHAT'S ON

Renee Revah (b. 1978) tracks the painful journey of the loss of her family members, from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz, in a photography exhibition with texts and videos at the Benaki Museum – Pireos (138 Pireos).


Takis Tloupas: Stories from the basement
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Rare Super 8 footage captured between 1950 and 1980 by Takis Tloupas and unearthed in the basement of his Larissa home by director Kalliopi Legaki inspired her to explore the life of the photographer who gained renown for his black-and-white images of life in the Thessalian city and countryside.


Frappe, cigarettes and dusty records
CULTURE

A guard dances the zeibekiko, a messenger receives greetings on his name day, with offers of whisky and cola, an employee with a Panathinaikos flag on his back leans over a coffee pot, and a storage keeper and messenger pedals on a stationary bicycle during working hours.

Frappe, cigarettes, seals and paperwork
CULTURE

An exhibition of photographs capturing the surreal side of the public sector at the old Ministry of Commerce in Kaningos Square, central Athens has opened at the French Institute of Thessaloniki.

The most popular Greek islands on Instagram
SOCIETY

Recent Instagram data reveals the most popular Greek islands. Santorini, which has almost 8 million Instagram hashtags, is number one. Crete and Mykonos took the second and third spots as the most Instagrammable locations among Greece’s many islands.



Far East | Athens | October 19-23
WHAT'S ON

Photographer and journalist Polyvios Anemoyannis (b. 1960) presents his exhibition “Far East” at the 1927 Art Space (35 Kypselis).

Whales, from above
THE NEW YORK TIMES

Sutton Lynch rises most days before the sun, arriving at Atlantic Beach in Amagansett, New York, for the early-morning calm. It’s the same beach he’s been going to since he was a child.


Perseid meteor shower seen from Gavdos
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In this photo taken with long shutter speed, a Perseid meteor sparks, while entering the earth’s atmosphere as a man sleeps in Tripiti beach in Gavdos island, the southernmost point of Greece and Europe, early Sunday.

Mykonos before the sunbeds
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When the illustrated travel guide “Mykonos-Delos” from the series “Discover Greece,” published by M. Pechlivanidis & Co, was launched in 1958, “tourism, Greek and international, was starting to explore the Cyclades,” as highlighted by the observations of author-journalist Vassilis Kazatzis during that era.

Photographers protest new IDs
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Professional photographers protested the planned introduction of new IDs outside the Citizen Protection Ministry Wednesday.