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On the Road and Back

2020-10-10T12:54:47-06:00

350 min read

I am home now back on the island of Skopelos, my base for five months a year. Always, it is good to leave the hotels behind, but alas, the pleasures and freedom of the road—new and old places visited, new friends—too quickly recedes.Thinking back…I

by Beatrice Hamblett

Mitsos Goes to Jail

2020-10-10T12:53:29-06:00

174 min read

9/15/19On my last visit to Aliveri, September 2019, I stop by Konstandina and Mitsos’s house. They meet me at the gate with bad news: Mitsos has just been arrested for driving without a diploma, a license. “Ah bad, bad news,” he tells me. He plies

by Beatrice Hamblett

Thoughts after Three-Day Photo Trip

2020-10-10T12:48:43-06:00

843 min read

Was my three-day photo trip to Aliveri, the mainland Roma settlement, a success? It cost way more than I would have liked and the rental car, a VW Polo that trawled dangerously low like a race car on the Aliveri dirt roads, caused no end of worry

by Beatrice Hamblett

Woman or Girl

2020-07-07T13:29:07-06:00

231 min read

Making photos, I often say to my models, soferi—serious, no smiles. I am prospecting for dreams and desires in the face of every child. Who is the real Magda percolating inside a nine-year-old child-body? The smile, unless natural and joyful, can

by Beatrice Hamblett

Flowers in Their Hair 2018

2020-05-27T14:00:23-06:00

299 min read

The Roma girls wear flowers in their hair and red lipstick knowing the photographer is coming to take pictures today. Evangelia holds a smart phone and plays a Roma tune, giggling and wiggling as she dances for the camera. Eletheria is more reserved

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On the Road and Back

by Beatrice Hamblett

Mitsos Goes to Jail

by Beatrice Hamblett

Thoughts after Three-Day Photo Trip

by Beatrice Hamblett

Woman or Girl

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Flowers in Their Hair 2018

by Beatrice Hamblett

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