4-Jun-2009: Greek Euro Elections: PASOK political party speech.

Photographs from the speech of the political leader of PASOK party, 4 Jun 2009.

4-Jun-2009: European Parliament Elections 2009 - urban landscape - Greek Posters, Athens, Greece.

Today is the european parliament election. We see in these photos how the urban landscape is changed due to the posters for the euro-elections. These photos are from the intersection between Athinon highway / Konstantinoupoleos.

20-Apr-2009: Wedding party of Nikos + Nikoleta, Sapes, Rodope, Greece.

These photographs has been selected from the following images (all of them belong to the same film that has been used: Kodak TMAX 3200 ASA):

21-Feb-2009: Ery Sky @Soul bar, Athens, Greece.

The following image has the full set of photographs that has been shot:

L-Camera TV #1 - Does Leica still make MP and M7?

This interesting video shows some scenes from the production line of Leica M7 cameras.

December 2007: Eleni - Athens, Greece.

Before selecting this photograph (the first photograph from the left) I was thinking that a good photo is also the third (the photograph to the right side).

08-May-1997: 2 female portraits, Ukraine.

08-May-1997: Train rails, Kiev, Ukraine.

Shadi Ghadirian: Exposition "Unveiled: New art from the middle east" @ saatchi-gallery 2009.

A few weeks ago in London at Saatchi Gallery I saw the work of the Iranian photographer Shadi Ghadirian in the group exhibition "Unveiled: New art from the middle east" 30 Janurary - 9 May 2009:

Shadi was born in Teheran in 1974 in Tehran, Iran. She studied photography and she works in the Museum of Photography of Tehran.

• Shadi Ghadirian @ Aeroplastics contemporary Gallery, Brussels.
• Photographs from the serie: Qajar / Like every day.
• Shadi Ghadirian @ en.wikipedia.org.

08-May-1997: Train station of Kiev, Ukraine.

A few days ago the Greek photographer Pericles Antoniou has been arrested in London/UK and sent to court for causing 'public harassment, alarm or distress' after taking and deleting pictures of a young girl in the London underground:

• Greek photographer arrested in London (British Journal of Photography).
• Greek Tourist Arrested for Photography on Tube (Re: Photo blog).

This amazing story reminds me a similar story with me a few years ago. In the photographs that you see in this post are shot in Kiev's train station on 08-May-1997. Because I was taking these photographs I was arrested. The police saw a foreigner with a photo-camera and thought that probably he is a "spy" or a "terrorist" ;-). In the police office I was trying to explain that I am tourist, I am taking photographs as an amateur photographer / "artist" etc etc.

1933 - HCB photograph in Italy.

Two days ago I was in a Sunday market in London and I found a kiosk selling photographs of famous photographers ie: Bill Bradt, Robert Doisneau, Annie Liebovitz etc.. Searching the photos I found this photograph that according to the labeling was shot by Henri Cartier Bresson, 1933 in Italy. The concept of this photograph is similar with the concept of a photo of mine that we have already seen in a previous post (August 2002: Dimitris - Samothrace):

16 and 20-Apr-2007: Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse - 'Luisenplatz', Darmstadt, Germany.

Information about the city of Darmstadt and the duke "Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse", that we see in these photographs can found from the english wikipedia:

• Darmstadt.
• Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse.

26-Aug-2007: Marriage of Sofia, Crete island, Greece.

The first photograph is interesting because both faces are not visible but it is easy to imagine/"see" the expression of the couple. The second photograph is also interesting but it looks like "folklore" type of photo. In the following image we see all the set of the photographs that was taken in that marriage: From these 73 photographs 10 was chosen as the best of and we can see them in the following image. From these 10 photographs we selected the 2 that are presented in this article.

29-Apr-2008: Portrait of young boy, Çınarl, Gökçeada (Imbros), Turkey.

In the photo we see a portrait of young Turkish boy (it may be also Kurdish since in Gökçeada island there are living many kurdish people). This photo has been selected from the following images:

It is interesting to present the full set of photographs that I shot in this particular scene (and I selected to show the above portrait) with all the children around the car:

29-Apr-2008: Orthodox easter / Ruined church / Gökçeada (Imbros), Turkey.

30-Apr-2008: Ferryport Kuzulimanı (Haghios Kyrikas), Gökçeada (Imbros), Turkey.

16-Dec-1996: A couple kissing in a train, while travelling Oradea -> Cluj, Romania.