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George Tatakis Black-and-white Greece. Recipient of 24 international awards. Gallery: Artion (Geneva)

The Flour Wars of Galaxidi.On Clean Monday, Galaxidi hosts one of the most unusual celebrations I have photographed in G...
19/10/2026

The Flour Wars of Galaxidi.

On Clean Monday, Galaxidi hosts one of the most unusual celebrations I have photographed in Greece.

The event is called Alevromoutzouromata. Participants throw coloured flour at one another, wear protective goggles and clothing, and move through streets filled with smoke, music and dancing.

The procession eventually reaches the harbour, where the celebration continues around fires.

When I first photographed the event, I had wrapped my camera in cling film and bought protective clothing. I ended up wearing two suits, although that did not prevent the flour from reaching almost everywhere.

Photographing from inside the procession was a rather different experience from watching it at a distance.

What I particularly like about these images is how the dust changes the visibility of the people and the buildings. Sometimes the scene becomes almost abstract, and then a face or a gesture brings everything back into focus.

These four photographs are part of Ethos, my long-term photographic study of Greek traditions and customs.

18/10/2026

The death of pop culture, available on my YouTube vlog

Portraits from Zagori, Epirus.I have selected three photographs showing local traditional dress in different surrounding...
17/10/2026

Portraits from Zagori, Epirus.

I have selected three photographs showing local traditional dress in different surroundings.

The first places the figure against a village of stone roofs. The second brings us closer, beside an old arched bridge. The third moves into an open landscape, where the figure occupies a much smaller part of the frame.

What I find interesting is the relationship between the craftsmanship of the clothing and that of the buildings.

The embroidery, the stonework and the architecture have their own patterns and structures. Looking at them together allows me to find visual relationships that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

These portraits are part of Caryatis, my long-term photographic study of women’s traditional dress across Greece.

The transportation of the dowry in Olympos, Karpathos.One of the more unusual traditions I have photographed in Greece i...
15/10/2026

The transportation of the dowry in Olympos, Karpathos.
One of the more unusual traditions I have photographed in Greece is the transportation of the groom's dowry during a wedding in Olympos.

Unlike the custom in many other parts of Greece, Olympos has traditionally been a matrilocal community. The husband moves into the home of his wife's family, and the inheritance of property through the female line has historically played an important role in the village.

The dowry is presented to the guests before being carried through the village by women, many wearing the local traditional dress.

Music accompanies the procession, and the event becomes a public celebration.
In the wedding I photographed in 2016, the dowry was also transported to Diafani, where the celebrations continued.

I have selected four photographs from that experience. Together, they show the embroidered textiles, the participants, the musicians and the journey itself.

The first photograph is also available as a fine-art print through my website.

From my project Ethos.

14/10/2026

The death of pop culture. Watch on my YouTube vlog

From the villages of Chios to the museum.In 2021, I travelled around Chios photographing women wearing the traditional c...
13/10/2026

From the villages of Chios to the museum.

In 2021, I travelled around Chios photographing women wearing the traditional costumes of their villages for my Caryatis project.

The work eventually covered 21 villages, each with its own architecture, local dress and cultural history.

These four photographs come from Pyrgi and Nenita.

Pyrgi is particularly recognisable for its geometric wall decorations, known as xysta. In Nenita, a village closely connected with mastic production, I worked both inside a traditional storage room and outdoors near old stone ruins.

In July 2026, part of that work returned to Chios as a museum exhibition.

Caryatis Delta | Chios brings together 36 of my black-and-white photographs at the Chios Mastic Museum, organised by the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation.

The exhibition continues until 31 December 2026.

What began as a series of encounters across the island has become a collection of physical photographs that can now be experienced there.

Πολιτιστικό Ίδρυμα Ομίλου Πειραιώς

Can a photograph suggest music without showing movement?This is one of the questions behind Chorōs, a photographic proje...
11/10/2026

Can a photograph suggest music without showing movement?
This is one of the questions behind Chorōs, a photographic project I began on Santorini.
My background as a pianist has influenced the way I think about visual composition. Music relies on relationships between sounds, repetition, variation and silence. I wanted to explore whether similar relationships could exist in static photographs.
These four images move from architectural forms to the volcanic landscape and the sea.
I am particularly interested in the contrast between the regularity of the church domes and the irregular shapes of the rocks. The final image introduces a different kind of space, with a nearly uninterrupted horizon.
Chorōs is an ongoing exploration of rhythm through photography.
Selected photographs from the project are also available as fine-art prints through my website.

10/10/2026

The death of pop culture. Watch it on my YouTube channel

The procession of icons in Patmos, Greece.Every year, on the Tuesday following Easter Sunday, religious icons are carrie...
09/10/2026

The procession of icons in Patmos, Greece.

Every year, on the Tuesday following Easter Sunday, religious icons are carried through the streets of Chora, the capital of Patmos. The procession visits local homes, where prayers are read and visitors are welcomed.

I joined the procession in 2019 and followed the icon bearers through the village.

One of the things I found particularly interesting was how naturally the ritual moved between public and private life. An icon being carried through a narrow street might, a few moments later, be standing inside somebody's living room.

These four photographs are part of Ethos, my long-term photographic work on Greek customs and traditions.

Trikeri was historically connected to the sea in much the same way as an island. For a long time there was no road conne...
07/10/2026

Trikeri was historically connected to the sea in much the same way as an island. For a long time there was no road connection, and boats shaped much of everyday life, including a local tradition of sponge gathering.

For Caryatis, I worked with local women inside a house that had preserved its traditional character.

In this photograph, I was interested in the doorway as much as the figures themselves. It creates two distinct planes without breaking the image into two separate scenes.

The woman in front holds most of the visual weight, while the figure further back keeps the room active behind her.

Trikeri, Thessaly. From Caryatis.

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