Photography / Text: Vaggelis Kousioras
Events
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01/01/2020 - 01/01/2020
Koudouniarides of Sarantaporo village
Location: Greece / Thessaly / Sarantaporo
Photography / Text: Vaggelis Kousioras
After three and a half hours we had walked the whole village and visited every house. The koudouniarides had sung and danced all this time but i was the only one feeling tired and frozen.
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06/01/2020 - 08/01/2020
The custom of Ragoutsaria in Kastoria
Location: Greece / Western Macedonia / Kastoria
Photography / Text: Vaggelis Kousioras
The clock was ticking. It was getting dark and more people were going out in the streets, dressed as carnivals, ready to have some good time. You could hear Balkan music everywhere.
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01/03/2020 - 01/03/2020
Tirnavos Carnival. The forbidden festival
Location: Greece / Thessaly / Tirnavos
Photography / Text: Vaggelis Kousioras
The phallus is the main subject of the festival. It symbolizes reproduction and fertility.
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01/05/2020 - 04/05/2020
Gomaropazaro. The horses' bazaar in Tirnavos.
Location: Greece / Thessaly / Tirnavos
Photography / Text: Vaggelis Kousioras
A bazaar for selling, buying and trading horses and mules
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28/10/2020 - 28/10/2020
28th of October. The parade in Larisa city.
Location: Greece / Thessaly / Larisa
Photography / Text: Vaggelis Kousioras
“Ohi Day” commemorates the rejection by Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas of the ultimatum made by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on the 28th of October 1940, to allow Italian forces to enter Greece or otherwise face war.