Andy, a 53-year-old unemployed German immigrant from Dusseldorf, sits by his makeshift home at a deserted harbor storage building in the port of Piraeus, near Athens, on April 13, 2013. Andy worked in Greece for many years, becoming homeless after he lost his job six years ago.
(Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)
In May 2012, in the run-up to the general election, the Greek authorities rounded up hundreds of women from the streets of Athens. They made them take rapid tests for HIV. Those diagnosed positive were charged with prostitution and the intent to spread the virus. Their mug shots, names and personal details were published in the media.
They were imprisoned. And they became unwitting pawns in a political game by a system hungry for scapegoats.
Athens, Greece: A boy walks past graffiti in the Tavros neighbourhood
Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
Athens, Greece: People reach for free fruit and vegetables distributed by farmers’ market vendors as part of their protest marking a 24-hour strike
A hard hitting documentary which shows the plight of refugees and migrants in recession hit Athens, Into The Fire is a film with a difference.
Herbert List 1937
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GREECE. Athens. 1937. “Marble statue from Antikythera I”.
This and other sculptures were taken from the Aegean by fishermen near Antikythera. List photographed them in the courtyard of the National Museum.
The photograph was first reproduced in “Verve” (March-June 1938).
Nikos Economopoulos
GREECE. Athens. Amusement park. 1985.
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Κατήχηση παιδιών από την ηλικία των 6 ετών, τους οποίους αποκαλεί «μικρούς φίλους του κινήματος», έχει ξεκινήσει η Χρυσή Αυγή.
