A day in photos

Today was a full day, My students were doing their ECCE written exams, others were doing CPE interviews and all were nervous. In between all this I managed to cook some Mexican food to help out friends at the Fair Trade do today, spend time with my daughter and take some photos of some weird and wonderful stuff that I came across while wending my way through the city.

As I was going across town I saw a whole building being covered in grafitti and so I jumped off the bus to get some pictures. As part of some youth festival there was a skateboard event and lots of music so I stayed a while and took some pictures.

Later on I came across a wonderful wedding ceremony in which the bride and hundreds of guests literally danced their way to church accompanied by a brass band, when I say brass band I mean a Balkan one which is like a manic Jimi Hendrix playing a trombone accompanied by Mile Davis on trumpet.

But why?

This is the question I've been asked countless times over the last four days by all kinds of people. Why do you take picturs like these? Why do you go out onto the street and photograph such stuff? Don't you know it could be dangerous? And to tell you the truth I don't have a simple answer . It's not as if I court danger or look for trouble in my everyday life. Quite the opposite. However, photography, especially street photography has been something that has always fascinated me, and finally, I have worked up the nerve over the last year or so to try it out for myself. I just love the idea of capturing tiny slivers of everyday life, which give a taste of what life is like here in Greece away from the beaches and archaeological sites.


Over the last couple of weeks one of things I was trying to capture was what a Greek election campaign feels like for ordinary people and not just those connected with political parties. Hence the photos of posters and rallies. It's quite different from the ones I experienced whilst I lived in England and I wanted to share something of that difference.

I guess like so many hobbies people have, my taking photographs seems quite bizarre to those who do not share the same passion.

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