Events
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06/01/2019 - 06/01/2019
Epiphany day in Athens
Location: Greece / Attica / Pireas
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
The annual custom of blessing the water, at the center of Piraeus, in Piraiki port. The cross is cast into the sea and people dive in to catch it. This will give them luck for the following year.
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18/12/2018 - 25/12/2018
Momoyer in Athens
Location: Greece / Attica / Kallithea
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
Every year, during the twelve days of Christmas, the Momoyer come out to dance and wish for a prosperous, fertile New Year. An ancient pagan custom brought in Greece by the people of Black Sea.
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02/01/2019 - 02/01/2019
Carnival wedding in Germas village
Location: Greece / Western Macedonia / Ionas Dragoumis
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
A fake wedding with music, wine and all
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23/12/2018 - 23/12/2018
Fires of Giourouki
Location: Greece / Central Macedonia / Florina
Photography / Text: George Tatakis
While waiting for the fire of Achlada to start at midnight, a custom that takes place in many villages around Florina on December 23, the guys we met there told us to go together at the next village, Giourouki, to see the fire there as well. They would start that earlier than Achlada, since that was a smaller village and most of the local people there would visit the big fire of Achlada later.
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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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02/02/2019 - 03/02/2019
San Simeon festival, winter season
Location: Greece / Western Greece / Missolonghi
Photography / Text: Michael Pappas
The winter edition of San Simeon festival of the city of Missolonghi. All nighters inside huts in the woods around the monastery of San Simeon.
Regions
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Greece
Crete
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Greece
Western Macedonia
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Greece
North Aegean
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China
Southwest China
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Israel
Tel Aviv District
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Brazil
Southeast Region
Prints
Stories
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Taverns in Dobrogea, Romania
Taverns, sweet and colorful Romanian places, where you meet simple people
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Stuffing zucchini flowers at Kos island
The women that day were stuffing zucchini flowers and grape leaves (dolma) with rice, for a traditional food festival that was taking place the same night at Kardamena village.
