Photograph by Christos Stefanou

A new exhibition dealing with immigration and migration is currently showing in Athens until the 13th January before heading to Thessaloniki and Brussels.

The project began with the selection of 14 young photographers who were given the order to get out into the streets of Athens for 14 months to take the city’s pulse and to try on the metropolitan mantle for the very first time.

I disagree that this is the first time that this has been done but that’s a minor quibble. I am particularly looking forward to seeing the collection of photographs showing stories of migration through the eyes of those living this reality.

a multinational group of students selected from 10 schools in Attica recorded individual moments of everyday life in their neighborhoods, at home and at school.

Under the supervision of photographer Camilio Nollas, they were asked to take pictures of their own lives. Nollas said:

We didn’t tell them to take pictures of children at traffic lights, but to seek within their own homes the small stories of migration, even if they were born in Athens. A grandmother trying out a recipe she learned as a child in Smyrna in her kitchen in Pangrati tells its own story of migration

You can see the exhibition at the Eynardou Mansion, the seat of the National Bank Cultural Foundation at 20 Aghiou Constantinou Street in Omonia. Go and see it.

Every photograph in “City Streets” is a breath of fresh air and carries a surprise

Via Kathimerini

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