To me—a foreigner living in Athens—Greece is a beautiful and intriguing land, full of light and life.
But it’s also a place that, since 2009, has been suffering from an unprecedented economic and social crisis, the victim of the harshest austerity programme ever implemented in Europe.
These photos, taken across Greece from 2010 to 2016, are my interpretation of how proud people react when the ground has fallen from underneath them.
Elsewhere
This project was first published on April 13, 2016. It was featured in: LensCulture, Fraction Magazine, Dodho, Living Postcards, HitAndRun, Edge of Humanity and Vice (including an interview with me, translated into Greek).
I also wrote a piece for Eric Kim’s photography blog on what I learned from making this project.
Photo captions
1 - Syntagma Square, Athens (May 12, 2011); 2 - Anafi island (August 10, 2011); 3 - Omonia Square, Athens (May 31, 2014); 4 - Nikis Street, Athens (June 3, 2014); 5 - Athens (December 12, 2014); 6 - Bozika village, Peloponnese (May 4, 2013); 7- Goura village, Peloponnese (May 5, 2013); 8- Bolati village, Peloponnese (January 14, 2013); 9 - Peak of Mount Ziria, Peloponnese (October 6, 2012); 10 - Kavros, Crete (September 10, 2014); 11 - Agios Lavrentios village, Peloponnese (July 27, 2014); 12 - Athens (January 1, 2011); 13 - Triopetra, Crete (July 30, 2012); 14 - Wildfires seen from Evia (June 27, 2014); 15 - Archanes, Crete (August 4, 2012); 16 - Archanes, Crete (August 4, 2012); 17 - Stylos, Crete (April 12, 2015); 18 - Scaramanga shipyard (January 10, 2016); 19 - Vrachati, Peloponnese (July 12, 2012); 20 - Lollipop seller on Ermou Street, Athens reading Naomi Klein’s “Shock Doctrine” (May 21, 2014); 21 - Brussels (February 20, 2010); 22 - Kyparissia, Peloponnese (August 6, 2015)
