Events
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17/01/2021 - 19/01/2021
Firewalking in Agia Eleni village
Location: Greece / Central Macedonia / Agia Eleni
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
You can see the pain in some firewalkers' face, some others show no expression or emotion. This year, there is one girl that will participate in this custom for the first time. After two hurtful tries, she stops, but not because she was hurting as she said but because she felt sad since Saint Konstantin and Saint Helena did not help her, did not blessed her by making her capable of walking on fire.
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29/02/2020 - 29/02/2020
The Ghost of Charmaina Carnival of Amfissa
Location: Greece / Central Greece / Άμφισσα
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
A custom related to a very old local legend, regarding a ghost protecting a local fountain, Charmaina. The legend said that there were more ghosts protecting other places and they would fight amongst them many times. The locals would hear the screams and hide in their homes. A quite spectacular event which gets very crowded.
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27/02/2020 - 02/03/2020
Carnival at Naxos island
Location: Greece / South Aegean / Naxos
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
«If Paradise was on earth, it would be here», wrote my favourite author Nikos Kazantzakis when he visited the island of Naxos
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01/08/2020 - 15/08/2020
Pilgrims of Panagia Charakiani in Rethymnon
Location: Greece / Crete / Mylopotamos
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
GREECE. Crete island. Rethymnon . Monastery of Virgin Mary of the Rock (Panagia Charakiani). Pilgrims living for 15 days in self made sheds around the Monastery, for the fast before the Assumption of Mary.
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26/04/2020 - 26/04/2020
Burial custom
Location: Greece / Attica / Piraeus
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
Every year, during the next Sunday of the Orthodox Easter, people of Black Sea origin have a celebration with their deceased ones, by having lunch at the cemetery.
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02/02/2020 - 03/02/2020
Winter festival of Saint Simeon
Location: Greece / Western Greece / Iera Poli Messologgiou
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
An ecstatic festival of drinking and dancing to Dionysian rhythms takes place in the historic city of Missolonghi.
Regions
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Greece
South Aegean
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Greece
Central Greece
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Greece
Attica
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Greece
Thessaly
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Greece
Western Macedonia
Prints
Stories
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From Darkness To Light
The Harmony in Chaos is born. Hundreds of strangers become one as they move and express themselves and dance with strangers. Who are not strangers. Anymore...
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Exploring the secrets of Buzludzha
On my way to Romania from Burgas, I made sure I would go through a Soviet monument I had seen online, which looked to me like a flying saucer, Buzludzha which sits at 1,432 metres (4,698 feet) high. This is where I met Eva and now have a story to remember.