Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
Photography / Text: Vaggelis Kousioras
Photography / Text: Chloe Kritharas - Devienne
Photography / Text: Wenpeng Lu
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
Events
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24/02/2019 - 24/02/2019
Bell Roads of Thessaloniki
Location: Greece / Central Macedonia / Thessaloniki
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
Every year in Thessaloniki there is help the Bell roads festival. Many groups of people bearing bells (20 to 30 teams each year) from Greece and abroad take part. There are more than 1500 people active. Disguised dancers, musicians, will parade on the streets of the city.
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10/03/2019 - 10/03/2019
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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10/03/2019 - 11/03/2019
Serifos's traditional carnival, Kapetania.
Location: Greece / South Aegean / Serifos
Photography / Text: Chloe Kritharas - Devienne
The traditional event of the ''Kapetania'' takes place on the last Sunday of the Carnival in Serifos Island. According to tradition, two teams, each one with a captain, stage a theatrical conflict outside the Monastery of the Taxiarches. The custom has been kept alive thanks to the efforts of the Serifos Women's Association.
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19/02/2019 - 20/02/2019
Zhongshan Road Street Food Night Market
Location: China / Southwest China / Nanning
Photography / Text: Wenpeng Lu
In an old and somehow derelict part of the city center, dozens of street restaurants and food stalls pile up local delicacies, traditional dishes from other regions and even the odd "contemporary" dish.
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14/05/2019 - 15/05/2019
Oil wrestling
Location: Greece / Central Macedonia / Nigrita
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
They started wrestling. Nobody was backing up. From where I was standing I could not take good pictures. When I approached the wrestlers, the watchers started yelling at me for ruining their view. I decided to be exactly behind the referee in order not to disturb anyone and when I saw something interesting I took pictures as fast as possible.
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01/05/2019 - 04/05/2019
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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23/06/2019 - 23/06/2019
The Sarakatsani
Location: Greece / Thessaly / Trikala
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
Suddenly I hear a loud noise and songs and then I see them in a row going out through the woods. The point where they come out is green, full of tall ferns and dense firs. I'm lucky, it's worth it, the bad weather also helps.
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27/07/2019 - 27/07/2019
Festival of Saint Panteleimonas
Location: Greece / Western Macedonia / Vlasti
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
The monastery of Saint Panteleimon, near Vlasti Kozanis, celebrates its patron saint. Many pilgrims arrive to pray and at the same time the villagers climb the mountain on the back of their horses.
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05/08/2019 - 07/08/2019
Crocodile festival at the Sepik River
Location: Papua New Guinea / Momase Region / East Sepik Province
Photography / Text: Alexandros Tsoutis
The tribes of upper Sepic gather in this feast wearing traditional costumes and participating in frenzied dances. Feathers of various birds like the mighty Cassowary or the emblematic bird of paradise, shells, grass skirts, teeth of crocodiles and warthogs, bows and spears and of course full body painting are just a few elements of these traditional costumes. The decoration is completed with live baby crocodiles, hanging on men, women and children.
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10/11/2019 - 11/11/2019
Saint Minas at Karpathos island
Location: Greece / South Aegean / Karpathos
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
After eating a delicious food, singing starts. There are local musicians playing. Oldest men sing first, the priest also. In a while, dancing starts. This will last until morning.
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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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31/12/2019 - 01/01/2020
New Year's Eve in Argos Orestikon
Location: Greece / Western Macedonia / Argos Orestiko
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
Very different New Year celebration with groups of brass instrument players, playing and dancing around the town