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Where’s the Gamos?

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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

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by Beatrice Hamblett

So Young

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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by Beatrice Hamblett

Finding Aliveri

554 min read

All summer long in 2018, the Roma camp on Skopelos Island was full of visitors. Every week another family arrived for a 7-10 day stay—aunts, uncles, cousins, tons of kids. Lots and lots of people I could photograph. But as the summer of 2019

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by Beatrice Hamblett

Woman or Girl

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

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by Beatrice Hamblett

So Rich

319 min read

Ring, ring. “Ela koukla mou.” Come, have a coffee, says Mitsos. New visitors have arrived at the campsite.A large group I’ve never seen before fills Mitsos’s “front door” of their basement home. A rotund gypsy, a xadelfos, cousin, surrounded by an

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by Beatrice Hamblett

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