Beatrice Hamblett

Miss China

2023-11-21T13:10:23-07:00

505 min read

It’s autumn and a typical Friday night at Naufsika’s Taverna in Kefalohori, a bustling village beneath the towering Grammos mountains in northwestern Greece. Tonight seven or eight tables are full of diners; some locals, many family members

by Beatrice Hamblett

Words of Evangelia Senior

2020-10-10T12:56:25-06:00

128 min read

Words of Evangelia Senior9/21/19Today Evangelia and I sit in the shade of the olive trees sipping iced coffees. “Next year we go to Karditsa together,” she says. “Snap, snap, you can make many photographs.” A nice idea as her entire extended family,

by Beatrice Hamblett

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

A Great Racket

2020-10-10T12:51:32-06:00

335 min read

I call Marinos this morning to confirm our meeting at the astinomia, the local police. We agreed that I will sell them my old motorbike for 100 euros. That’s what we tell the police, anyway. In reality, it’s a gift from me to them in exchange for

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

Eleftheria Makes Her Debut

2020-08-11T08:11:07-06:00

600 min read

Young Eleftheria turned 15 this year. A tall serious girl with flowing black hair and almond eyes, she is the oldest daughter of Crazy Mitsos, my Roma friend and first contact with Roma families in Greece. In Skopelos, that first summer in 2018,

by Beatrice Hamblett

Why Two Different Treatments of the Same Photograph?

2020-07-30T08:25:51-06:00

166 min read

The photographs included with the Roma stories from “1000 Years and Counting” include two different treatments of the same photograph. Why this approach?One image is a “straight” documentary-style, gelatin-silver photograph paired with a free-form

by Beatrice Hamblett

Where’s the Gamos?

2020-07-30T07:53:39-06:00

540 min read

All the years I traveled around rural Greece, I searched for stories that described the daily life. Tales of meeting and photographing farmers, shepherds and bakers unfolded. Stories too of bouzouki bar nights and looking for abandoned villages high

by Beatrice Hamblett

So Young

2020-07-18T09:59:49-06:00

229 min read

I stop by Mitsos and Konstandina’s house in Aliveri to find the front door wide open. No one responds to my call: “Yeia sou! Yeia sou!” Then Konstandina appears ambling across the side lot through the weeds with her skirt tied up, lugging a big bag

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Mitsos Goes to Jail

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Thoughts after Three-Day Photo Trip

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Eleftheria Makes Her Debut

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Why Two Different Treatments of the Same Photograph?

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Where’s the Gamos?

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So Young

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