5-Jun-2009: Greek Euro Elections: ND political party speech.

Photographs from the speech of the political leader of ND (Nea Dimokratia) party, 5 June 2009.

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.